Hoya davidcummingii - butterscotch scented for at least 7 days
April Color
Hoya purpureo-fusca - lilac scented
Hoya lacunosa 'Sno Caps' - very evident 'lacunosa' scented - blooming spring thru fall
Beautiful!
Hoya carnosa cv. krinkle 8 - chocolate scented
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H. aff. parasitica 'Lao 2' - smells wonderfully musky and blooms last at least 4 days
H. heuschkeliana - buttery scent blooming constantly throughout the year
H. naumanii - lilac scented - very clean and blooms continuous for months
H. onychoides
The anticipation was something else.
Here she is...
Another view
one more
more are opening up too
Nice!!
How long from start of buds to bloom?
around 2 months! I noticed something that "could be" back in late Jan. early Feb.
wow (gulp) that's a long time to worry about them...
I know! I have an H. Imperilis that has blaste like 10 peduncles! It is budding up again so I'm holding by breath ... again! I had to quit looking at onychoides I was so afraid I'kd walk in and find it had blasted. Was really surprised to get it to bloom.
Some great photos there. Coincidentally, I just got a H. lacunosa cutting today that was sent to me. Hopefully I'll get it right. Come to think of it, I don't know what "right" needs to be. Love that H. onychoides.
My H. densifolia (previously thought to be H. golamcoana 'Los Banos') is flowering again, as it has for the past 8 or so months. It puts out a lot of flowers then has a spell of 2 to 3 weeks while new peduncles develop. Then it's off and flowering again. Just wondering whether it'll do it all year.
The same H. australis ssp rupicola peduncle is flowering again. And the plant is putting out another spike. Looks like there's going to be flowers around for a while yet.
One of the small cuttings of H. australis ssp rupicola will be flowering soon as well. Although there's not many buds on the peduncle. But anyway, there's 3 more spikes developing, so not bad for it's first season. Next year it'll be a mass of blooms. (I'm allowed to be an optimist if I want to!) :O)
One of the cuttings hasn't put out a flower spike but it has put out a runner already about a metre long. If it thinks it's going to do a runner up the tree it's in for a surprise.
Hoya heuschkeliana - blooms constantly and smells like butterscotch...love it!
H. sp. Bicolor - smells like freshly cut limes and lasts 3-6 days
H. australis ssp. tenuipes 'Kapoho'. I found this seedling growing in an empty lot down by the ocean in an area called Kapoho. The vine was all over the place!!! The leaves can get quite large...and it is quite rugged. I wondered what the sweet smell was in the air yesterday and came upon a rope of vines about 20' long and a bloom at every node!!!!
How do you keep yourself from taking a little piece of all those things that just grow wild there? Must be paradise!! One day I am coming to visit.
Carol, that H. australis ssp tenuipes looks like the one I found last year. Does the one you found have alternate rather than opposite leaves?
Gee...never thought to look. Be back tomorrow with the envelope holding the answer!
H publicalyx 'Jungle Garden'
That's different to my H. pubicalyx. Mine's the "Carol's Special Yellow Leaf Form" ;O)
I grew this sport many years ago and only recenty tracked it down again. I seem to remember it had lighter flowers, but the leaves are very different to other H publicalyx sports. Much larger, wider, waxier and heavier than the usual narrow leaved publicalyx sports..otherwise i might have thought it was incorrectly labelled........I find this sport the most attractive with its leaves....and its a quick grower. This photo of the plant shows a plant I got as a 2 node cutting less than 2 years ago. It gets a couple of hours direct sun outside, so the leaves have develloped an attractive hue...and very few silver spotting on this plant. I wouldnt be surpised if it was a hybrid from way back and its heritage has ben forgotten, but guess we'll never know now
Wow...TB...that is interesting with the alternate leaf growth!!!! Even the leaves look different. Has it bloomed?
Dom...I have a pubicalyx like yours...it is called Bright One and it blooms all of the time!!!! There should be a forum somewhere with only each species and everyone could post what THEY have as the individual cultivars in each thread.
Hoyas australis, carnosa and pubicalyx have been around SOOOOOoooooo long and (I suspect) seedlings grown out in the millions, that I doubt if any of the cultivars are true to the original publication. Goes for australis too....around here they are popping up....some consider it an invasive weed!!!
I reckon half these sports are the same and just get fancy names. I just googled 'Bright One' and it looks the same.....Im surprised how dark the flowers are on mine..first time Ive bloomed it, but its been outside a year and possibly it flowers darker in the sun although other publicalyxs are blooming normal their normal color....time will tell...ya never know with Hoyas..:))
The interesting thing Carol, I took a fairly long piece of vine from the wild, coiled it up and kept it in a plastic bag until I got home. That took over 2 weeks. It started putting out roots all along the vine so I put it into a pot coiled with a little sandy soil on top. Several shoots came up and as they grew longer I noticed one had alternate leaves. Now the alternate leaved one is a long runner growing very fast and the opposited leaved ones are still growing at a steady pace. But no signs of flowers on any of them yet. So one plant, two different leaf configurations.
Hmmmm Will ask Ted about that...he might have a theory....
Maybe you should take a cutting from the alternate-leafed plant and see if it continues to grow that way or if it reverts to being opposite again. Please let us know...
Thanks,
Mike
propmaker,
Both the leaves and flowers on your pulicalyx look very much like the variety referred to as 'Royal Hawaian Purple', also known as 'Chimera'
See Christina's page at:
http://myhoyas.com/pubicalyx-RHP.htm
atisch (Allan)
This is a photo showing both plants leaves. Jungle Garden on the left, and RHP on the right...the leaves are quite different to me. I havent flowered the RHP yet but its budding up. I can check the flowers in a couple of weeks
Dominic
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Hmmmm...Dom, those "Jungle Garden" leaves look an awful lot like the leaves on a hoya that's been floating around for awhile called Hoya "Violet Red"...someone suggested Violet Red might be a pubicalyx/motoskei cross...Gardino's Nursery carries it and you could check out the photos on their site...I'd be interested in your opinion...
Shelley
It does look like their 'Violet Red' Shelley. Mine's outside and gets some sun.the leaves werent with any patina before, just very few silver dots, and their nod towards the leanes of motoskei is what I think
I grew a variety with this name some 30 years ago. I got the plant from a guy in the South of England. This one came from Rosita in Sweden. The only difference betwen this one and the original I had is the flower color..mines very dark, tho this could be due to it being outside. I've always thought it looks more like a Hybrid than a sport. If you google H publicalyx 'Bright One' that too has leaves similar
Wow, that's very interesting....I've seen photos of "Bright One" flowers before, but didn't realize the leaves looked like that...so I guess the question is, what relationship--if any--do hoya cv's Bright One, Violet Red, and Jungle Garden have to each other? It's so confusing we'll probably never know, but I bet that at least two of them (and maybe all 3) are the same thing...my Violet Red, gotten off e-bay from a seller in Texas, hasn't bloomed yet, but I'll be interested to compare the blooms with the other two cultivars when it does...
I have a feeling I am beating a dead horse when I say that I feel trying to ID a pubicalyx or a carnosa cultivar is trying to put 'breed' names on a litter of mongrel puppies! In fact not too different. Crosses and recrosses and cross crosses have taken place so often since the original cvs. were named, that it would take DNA testing to start to figure it all out.
Carol