This is my first bloom from a hoya I got from David Liddle last year, H. sp. Philippines IML 831. The name means that it IS a species (not a cultivar nor a clone of something else but no one knows what it IS and it was found in the Philippines)...Isn't it GORgeous!?
Milan you have to find some way to trade with Alohahoya!! I'm sure I read she needed some laundry done.
I think Milan would even take out the garbage for her!...for that matter, I would too just to see her greenhouse and all her hoyas!
Beautiful colour and bloom Carol..does it smell at all?
Sandy, there was no fragrance today, but this evening there is (I JUST went out and sniffed) a pleasant sweet smell....fresh smelling to me. Not like the candy store in the Mall smell. Perhaps it will grow with time... The umbel of flowers is "hemispherical" meaning that it is round...larger than a pingpong ball... Some of our plants out here in the tropics smell like really cheap perfume when they get really going.... This one is more subtle.
Maybe I should start an Adult Hoya Camp!...(excuse me while I go off and chew on this thought for a while...). First, we get rid of DH who doesn't like a lot of strangers....then.....
good idea! send him to visit his daughter for the weekend..he, he, LOL.
That bloom is beautiful! congratulations! Carol, are you saying even Mr. Liddle nor Chris know what it is either? Just curious.
yes a adult hoya camp is funny...sort of like a hoya underground cult going on!..
do you have any more blooms coming on the plant?...its too bad someone couldn't invent smell via computer, i am sure it is very nice, if its anything like the bloom....
Sandy
Oh what a beauty, congrats Carol.
I added it to the PDB so please submit the photo http://plantsdatabase.com/go/70848/live_view/
Pam/Sandy, actually Carol and I are currently trying to work something out in regards to legal import but there is alot of red tape in those CDN import laws.
Hmmmm Hoya Camp in HI, sign me up for a year or two :)
Oh good!! :D
Neither Chris nor David have found a confirmed ID...but they are getting close to finding some relatives of it. I am sending some flowers to Chris which she then discects under a microscope and takes photomicrographic pics of it to compare to other flowers. Some parts of the flowers, in combination with other parts, are the indentifiers.
The leaves, on this one, are long and narrow, with short internodes so it makes a really nice compact plant.
Chris sent me a photo of IML 831 that David sent her....the corollas are yellow on his...and I got mine from him...so it just shows how much environment has to do with it.
BTW - there are lots of hoyas "out there"...and some have been published (found, described etc.) as far back as the early 1800s. First one has to get all the details of the flowers parts etc. and try to find an Herbarium Sheet to see if it has been found/published before. This is a worldwide quest as Herbarium specimens have been deposited all over. Then, if none are found, then one can publish it after determining all kinds of relationships to other species etc. It is a pity that some people will see a hoya, note a different color or smaller leaves and decide it is a new species and publish it...it only confuses the matter 10 fold.
So...in the meantime, responsible people just give it a H. sp. (from) and a number, like IML 831.
I hope you guys make some headway in the future with the import of them..I can imagine there must be a lot of red tape in order to get something set up....Looking at Carol's site, i would love to buy something from her directly without having to set up a post office box across the line.....Try to convince my hubby that I need more hoyas is another story!....
I sure would like to go to a Hoya Camp if it was on the mainland, and not in the Southern States where it is impossible to live this time of year. We're hot, but dry. This morning we had fog, I wouldn't believe my eyes, it must be a tail end of a Mexican storm, or it coming in from San Francisco or the Bakersfield tullies. Norma
