New find

Teguise, Spain

Found this today in a local Garden Centre. H australis.you dont get many Hoyas for sale here, but obviously I had to buy it to encourage the Nursery to get more Hoyas in ( my excuse and Im sticking to it.!!.))
What suprised me is how it was growing. It had had a lot of sun, and in , well, just solid soil with bad drainage , over potted and soaking wet. They had about 15 in from somewhere on the islands, probably Tenerife. All were strong plants, all had flowered as there is a seed pod and more flowers coming, and basically everything we try not to do to Hoyas....yet they were all really strong and all setting bud. They told me it was a Stephanotis.....now they know better....:))
Bad photos as its a different camera, but gives you the idea

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Teguise, Spain

bad soil

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Teguise, Spain

Groovy seed pod

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North Augusta, ON

Nice find!

I love those leaves!

Wow! That is a great find Dom.

That's it, I'm moving my australises into full sun and mud soil...lol...

Keaau, HI(Zone 11)

NICE find!!! I really love H. australis...it is such a willing camper and takes most abuse of the worst kind.!!!!

Chipley, FL(Zone 8a)

Great find, and I love that seed pod, kinda looks like a snail shell.

Dee

Shepherdstown, WV

I love the seed pod! Very neat!

Kelly

noonamah, Australia

It looks like an insect or pathogen got into one side of the seed pod while it was still small preventing it from growing. The other side would then have kept growing and ended up wrapping itself around. Can you see anything there looking closely? It would be a shame to find you could be harbouring something which might multiply and infect your other plants.

Keaau, HI(Zone 11)

Nice point, TB...I would never have thought that...but of course it wouldn't matter the pathogen or insect, foreign or not...

Teguise, Spain

hmm

Teguise, Spain

In the bin now....best safe than sory......there'll be more ( not that I need more australis )

Keaau, HI(Zone 11)

Oh Dom...it is not about NEED, now, is it?

Teguise, Spain

always another spot empty.:))

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