At first all leaves in the Hoya species looked all alike to me, they are just now starting to have faces with names. Am slow when it comes to names. I think I am having an ID ten T error here. LOL Norma
Leaves that look alike
More than that, many are not listed yet, they only list every five years in the IPNI Query, there may other list available as well to compare this list with, anyone know of another. I am trying to get a list of all the collection #'s that have been named. I have collection # but no names on the plants.
That's a bummer. Many have been named in the past five years. FUBR the whole species. Norma
I have a H. diptera, which looks like 20 others. I can't wait until they all flower all at once. Norma
I have five different hoyas - a varegated bella, a varegated carnosa, a krimson princess, a hindu rope and another I don't know the name of - it has dark green and fairly narrow leaves with silver splashes on it - flowers are light pink with darker pink centre, like the carnosa's except a touch darker. I keep them all in and near the sliding glass door in my bedroom. When 3 or more are in bloom together the nightime aromas are just lovely, but DH sleeps in the spare room (lol), says it smells toxic ... I don't understand ... but I've known other people who don't like their aroma either. Oh well, at least I get a good night's sleep ... LOL. All in all, they're my favourite tropical plant.
Norma....I had 3 H. diptera (one found in a local nursery, one as a NOID received in a trade and one I bought from David Liddle). All three looked like different species - VERY different species - until they bloomed. Leaves are SO fickle.
Here are two leaves, still on the plant...H. arnottiana. The smaller leaf is 3.5" long...and there are only 6 leaves on the plant!!!
I keep this picture handy to remind myself not to look at leaves!!! Sometimes it works :o}
I know you can't tell them apart by the leaves, some are very distinct, other not, we must keep reminding this group of that. My leaves look more like the bottom leaf o;n the picture.
It the same with all species, I just bought 3 Haworthia Maughanii today, they are all different , grown from seed and come from different locatiions and their windows (faces) are all different, but some people collect these and may have 20 or more. One is Japanese. So it is different. I do understand what you are saying, I have 6 different Fraterna, from 6 different locations. I can't wait to see the flowers, granted probably 3 are misnamed if I'm lucky. One is the sure thing, the other? ? ? Crassula, I have a C perfoliata falcata it also has a new name which I'm shaking my head over. But the point I'm making her is that they are all different clones, the flowers are a different degree or Crimson, red, orange, deep red, etc. I really don't see the leaf difference, but they were all from different locations. Still the same plant. They are called Crassula perfoliata var. minor. (falcata) So I do understand. This is driving me nuts. I am hoping that someone will volunteer to come here and straighten this all out.
I haven't seen enough in flower to see the differences yet. They all still look the same as well. I'm working with at least 10 different genua here with at least 100 species in each, no wonder I'm dizzy.
Norma
I have 20 so called different H. carnosa, probably all with made up names. I think its a waste of space. I just hope they all have wonderful perfume at night when they flower, the common one sure does. I really can't see any difference in the leaves, they all look the same to me, and then there are the H. publicaylx about 10 or more of those, take those away I wonder how many different I will have left. LOL Norma
I love the smell of H. carnosa...but I tell you, that H. motoskei is heavenly. A friend of mine says they smell like "the devils' feet"...hmmmm. I am keep H. motoskei and putting the others in the woods to grow wild. I do have one the looks like H. carnosa but the leaves are SO gorgeous I am hanging on for when (if?) it blooms.