Seeking an ID of picture seen on web

Please forgive me if I'm not going about this right as I'm a new DG member and this is my first such inquiry. I'm not new to gardening or horticulture, but I am somewhat of a novice on Hoyas. I've been surfing the net on the whole subject off an on and came upon what looks to me like an unusual Hoya in that its leaves are so densely packed on its stem that it has an extremely upright appearance though it clearly needs some support.

I came across the pictures on a blogsite by Leon Lem below:

http://leonlem.blogspot.com/2008/05/hoya-flower-blooming.html

He has pictures of a total of 3 different Hoyas of which only this one is unusual--4 pictures sandwiched between H. kerrii and H. carnosa--near the bottom of the web page. I've attached one of these with my post. Of this Hoya, Mr. Lem states:

"I was not able to find out the actual name of this type of hoya plant that I have bought. This hoya plant also originates from Thailand...The flowers keep blooming non-stop as there are alot of flower buds on the plant."

I had written to a few Hoya experts I'd met online and only one, Christina of MyHoyas.com in Sweden replied. She felt that it could be either H. pachyclada or H. subquintuplinervis. I've checked the plant pages on both of these here at DG and the Internet in general, but can't say the pictures are of either one. I recently purchased a H. pachyclada (from Gardino's Nursery in FL) and it's leaves are more similar to the mystery plant than to the leaves pictured on it's plant page here, so I'm still considering that H. pachyclada, perhaps a different variety, may possibly be correct.

I hope a positive ID can be made by folks here. This does seem to be a Hoya worth knowing about (and growing) about as it's obviously quite floriferous and overall attractive and compact. Thank you

It looks like one of the Hoya australis to me, but I'm not sure which. It reminds me of H. australis ssp. australis: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/54435/

More photo's here: http://www.myhoyas.com/aus-ssp-aus.htm

I'm not good at identifying from photo's so this is just a guess on my part.

Its not H australis Lin....
Its one of the ones thats similar to H pachyclada/ H subquintuplinervis, but I couldnt say which one. Mark or Carol should be better on this one

Dom

Agreed---most likely H. pachyclada....

Shelley

^_^ See, I'm not good at identifying, my guesses are wrong more than they are right, LOL. It sure is a gorgeous Hoya and it indeed looks like pachyclada:

H. pachyclada: http://www.sitascorner.se/pachyclada.htm

http://www.bigislandgrowers.com/AHcomp/AHpach1.php

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/57788/

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=hoya+pachyclada&oq=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=f_CHS7aBEZCYtgeh_sywDw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CA8QsAQwAA

I think it looks like H. subquintuplinervis but need to look at more comparisons.

I have never seen a plant structure like that....beautiful!!!!!

Isnt it? Its more akin to a Crassula

Aside from the flowers it sure does have a different growing habit from most hoyas. Perhaps it gets a great deal of sun; I know that H. kerrii's leaves will grow closer together when it gets a lot of sun. Maybe that's true for H pachyclada or subquintuplinervis too - or whatever it is....


Christine

I was thinking the same.....For it to grow so compact, a lot of sun was my thought. Also, the red margin around the leaf edge is very pronounced, indicating a lot of light

Well, all I can say is that my H subq. and H pachy. are being moved into stronger light. That, and what a cool plant!


8-)


C.

That's what I say, too!!! Whatever that hoya is...is is VERY old. My H subquintuplinervis grws about 1 inch per year!!!!

This message was edited Feb 27, 2010 7:07 PM

Hi I am new here so i am asking for some help..Is a H Picta,H Tricolor,H krimson princess the same plant?

Hi Dalette. No, they are not the same plants.

Here is a link to a page for H. picta - http://myhoyas.com/picta.htm

Here is a link to a page for H. carnosa 'Tricolor' - http://myhoyas.com/carnosa-variegata.htm - there's actually an argument about its corect name but this is the plant you want info on. It is also sometimes called H. carnosa 'Krimson Queen'

Here is a link to a page for H. carnosa 'Rubra' - http://myhoyas.com/carnosa-Rubra.htm - also known as H. carnosa 'Krimson Princess' and some other names

The last two are obviously related, but are definitely not the same plant. The first one is as different as different can be from the other two.

I hope this has helped.