As I watched the news this evening, and saw the footage of the horrible mud slides and floods in the area of Benguet in the Philippines....I am reminded that one of my favorite hoyas, H. benguetensis was found in that area, and name for it. I would like to think of it as the jungle and wild area when the hoya was found there, than the devastation of that red mud. Hoyas has given me a rounding out of my inadequate knowledge of geography.....
Carol
OT....kinda but not really
Also, earthquake hit Padang (Hoya padangensis).
Very sad indeed for the people of these islands to have such devastation and to live with the fear every day that another earthquake or tsunami could hit.
It would be interesting to find out if this type of disaster would result in producing a hoya species that hadn't been found in years.
Christine
Actually...H. curtisii was 'rediscovered' after decades ... after a hurricane blew down top heavy trees. And there it was.
When I was trekking in Papua New Guinea earlier this year I saw tonnes of orchid clumps that had fallen from tree tops (sometimes along with the tree tops). They were all rotting away. I guess that's the fate of a lot of elusive plants when their little world comes crashing down
Evolution.
We had the back end of a hurrican hit the south of the UK in 1987 and it caused devastation.....Millions of trees were flattened..yet, from that devastation and all the trees that were felled, many rare plants that hadnet been seen for decades suddenly appeared in the huge clearings which had been created.