Before I continue to add pictures to the PD I should get them properly ID. I know that sometimes what you order is not what you get.
#1 albiflora
This message was edited Jun 1, 2004 6:03 PM
ID verified
#2 meredithii
#3 australis ssp. tenuipes
#4 australis ssp. keysii
#5 meliflua fraterna
#6 fungii
#7 heuschkeliana
#8 cumingiana
#9 ciliata
Well...I can offer a limited opinion...my 2cents. First it would help to know who you ordered them from...
There are a couple of other hoyas with big fuzzy leaves like H. albiflora....so until it blooms....hard to say.
H. meredithii is an invalid publication, so the correct name is H. vitellinoides....
H. meliflua ssp. Fraterna looks right.
H. australis ssp. Tenuipes looks kinda correct...the leaves look thicker than mine, but it could just be a different clone. It is hard to see the flat shape of the leaf.
The rest look ok, to me, except so many of the Eriostemmas look so much alike, the H. ciliata could be any of a number of them: H. sussuela, H. sp. Green Apple, or any of the many hybrids of Michael Miyashiro or Ed Gilding. I have a whole bench of them as NOIDS cause the cat pulled the tags out and now I have to wait til they bloom! Darn.
Nice healthy looking plants!!! Congratulations.
Thanks Alohahoya2000. I will re-tag merridithii. Albiflora must not be correct, my leaves are not fuzzy. I got that one from Paul Shirley.
Cindy
Hmmmmm. Then, definitely not H. albiflora. However, what a wonderful mystery in store...what can it be!!!?
I will check around and see if Chris knows what he was selling as H. albiflora. Most dealers continue the mislabeling from year to year so the answer may be there.
My take on Paul Shirley is that he bought a nursery of mislabeled hoyas and has done nothing to rectify the problem...the good news is that they are inexpensive and affordable.
Cynthia - I sent your photo to Chris who says that your mys. #1 possibly/perhaps/might/could be H. calycina ssp. glabrifolia... She has never seen a non-pubescent leaf of H. calycina, but David Liddle and Dr. Paul Forster published it as a subspecies.
Oh dear...another "wait til it blooms!!!"... Hope this helps.
Thanks for trying to figure out what plants I have. I really would like them labeled with the proper name.
Cindy