Since I am a normal Home Depot plant watcher, and I know Exotic Angel has mis labeled plants, I wonder if you guys could help me with being able to ID one when it arrives locally. I see they have nice reddish buds, and green leaves, but what sets them apart at the first sight?
IDing DS-70
The leaves should be dark green with plenty of reddish purple on the edges and underneath the leaves. Also the leaves are not smooth like lacunosa, but feel more like felt.
Doug
Thanks!
Here's a couple of pics. for you. The leaves are smaller than I imagined them being, even after I saw pictures! My hand is there for size reference.
New leaves:
My DS-70's are EA plants and I think they were labeled Hoya bilobata when I bought them. Mine stays hanging out on the pool deck, SW side, almost all year. It gets full sun filtered by the screen and some of the leaves seem to stay green while others get the reddish color.
I went out and took a picture, showing foliage and a couple of blooms/buds
Dropped by HD this morning and found this.
Nice find! It looks like DS-70 to me. I see it's an EA plant, was it labeled? Mine looked just like that when I first bought it and the foliage gets redder with more sun.
I forgot to post the photo that I took yesterday of the foliage and buds/blooms
It was not labeled, and I have been watching it for a year now. It does have an EA barcode tag, but not a name tag. I noticed that it has pointier leaves than the pics you guys posted, so I assume that the become more curved as the plant matures or gets more sun?
I think the leaves on my plant were more pointed when I first got it a couple of years ago. Mine is an EA plant too and someone on here ID'd it as DS-70.
Here on the EA website: http://exoticangel.com/Varieties/ShowProductDetails.aspx?productid=119 they list it as bilobata but in the small print as tsangii.
And, I believe this one: http://exoticangel.com/Varieties/ShowProductDetails.aspx?productid=125 they list as sulawesii is actually brevialata.
Great find ADog!! I wouldn't give it too much sun, but make sure it gets bright light. A great location for hoyas in the house is on a table about a foot back from a south-facing window that has a sheer curtain covering it. That kind of bright.
EA sure doesn't get a lot of them entirely correct. I saw a few EA hoya compactas in a Walmart on the weekend, they were labelled Hoya carnosa compacta. Close.
Lovely flowers Lin!
Christine
I wish I had south windows, but my windows are only East or West, so its going to be facing either of those. Thanks for the thumbs up!
Tell me, you guys seem to have more love for a DS-70 than any other plant I have ever found. What is up with this plant over all other hoyas?
This message was edited Oct 20, 2009 9:54 PM
East facing is also very good; it would get morning sun which is cooler than late day sun in the west, especially in your growing zone.
Availability of an already grown hoya is hard to find AD; DS-70 can actually be found in stores, yet its not a common hoya. Yes, there are far rarer hoyas, but it takes jumping through hoops to be able to buy them, and always as single cuttings. To grow a plant like this from cuttings ordered from an online source would be very expensive, and would take many years to grow.
Christine
This message was edited Oct 21, 2009 7:02 AM
I brought it home today, cleaned it up and soaked the soil. Its a tradition with me when getting a new plant from a big box store, where they seem to be forgotten. Found a very interesting Siamese leaf on a plant, with a Y shaped central vein. I have never seen a leaf like that on any plant. Have you all seen a leaf with 2 terminal ends on any plant? Weird.
Ive had a few.....noticed a new one on a different hoya today. Its nothing to worry about, sometimes they just throw one out ( unless I have radioactive water and dont know yet..;))..)
Dominic
Excellent. I was not worried about it, just wondered if I could get rich off it! Thanks for your response.