Hoya ID, please...

I'am really new to hoya(s), and a new subscriber. I have a hoya which has dark green leaves oblonge shape(2 1/2" in length), shiny and have speckle markings which appear cream white and in other lighting it is silver. The leaves look like caudata hoya and blooms look like Mathilde.

I went into plant data-I can't really see the leaves itself but it looks like the Mathilde??
Can someone tell me what they think.
I sent one to Milan, maybe he will know..Or, I can send someone a piece to ID the hoya.It's a huge plant now.

Blessings, Ingrid

Ingrid...

Can you post a photo? Though it is next to impossible to ID from leaves....sometimes it works. And if you have a large plant...the flowers (if it has bloomed) will REALLY help!!!!

TTFN
Carol

Hi Ingrid,
I'm sure if you sent Milan a cutting he can give an idea of what you might have.
You will quickly find out that most Hoyas are hard to identify by the leaves alone!
How long have you had the plant? My guess is that you have Hoya carnosa.
Hoya 'Mathilde' is fairly new and is a hybrid of Hoya carnosa & I think Hoya serpens. I don't have this one yet, but think the leaves are fairly small with blooms that look like carnosa....
just a thought....

Thanks Carol, wow that was fast. I will try to get this camera working for the computor if not today/tomorrow-Thank-You so very much. The blooms are not on right now thou...
Thanks, again
Ingrid

Ingrid, got the package yesterday and I can say for 100% sure that it is not 'Mathilde' which, as Lesli stated above is a carnosa/serpens cross and has round speckled leaves about the size of a Quarter to Loonie (Canadian coin not the ones driving on the road)
From the looks of it what you got is Hoya motoskei http://davesgarden.com/pdb/go/57674/index.html

Milan

I got a piece of the same plant from Paridise and that's my guess too. We can only wait for sure until it blooms though to be absolutely sure.

I know we are all drawing at straws here without blooms. With the leaves being only 2 1/2 inches long, that sounds rather small for the Hoya we call motoskei (the REAL carnosa), the mature leaves on mine are 5 1/2 to 6inches in legnth.

Some of the leaves on the cutting she gave me are at least 5" long, and very wide. Time will tell... Paridise says its bloomed, maybe she can post a picture of the plant in bloom, if it does it again this year.

oh Lesli, I noticed my motoskei (from you) is getting big leaves. It was a joy to see because I hadn't realized they would get that way. I'm moving away from hoyas but this is one I will definitely keep.

Okay here is a pic of my 'Mathilde', which I started from a small cutting earlier this year, and the monster cutting I received from Ingrid yesterday.

If it is H. motoskei...you have a beauty! Mine is a blooming fool!!!!

Hi, everyone...Thanks for giving me hand on this poor unnamed hoya.

Milan, I happy you received it. It's wonderful you could show a picture of it, and felt you would know. Still under the process of understanding this camera and loading it . So, in-conclusion do we call it a motoskei? Or should we wait till it blooms. The blooms look identical to a Mathilde from what I see on the plantdata. I wish mine would of stayed only up till 3 weeks ago it had 7 on it. It's an extremely easy to care for and does bloom heavily when it's in the mood.

I have 3 more cuttings I took off if there is anyone who wishes to have a piece of this......................probably could take off more but this is all took off for now. He got a haircut/problem is he's not a paying customer.
Just e-mail if anyone is interested.

Best regards, Ingrid

Milan, I just checked the link you have posted and that is it....the blooms are exactly like this one...and the leaves. Alright , it's a MOTOSKEI HOYA.

Wonderful Milan, that's it. Great!
Thanks, again Ingrid

Ingrid, I'm so glad that you asked, that confirmed the name of my plant, I think it's interesting how plants change the size of their leaves as they mature. This thing that perhaps has a bad name which looks like H. cardi phylla and could be H. cardophylla it's not my writing, started out with very heavy leaves, the new leaves are not the same but may grow. In many plants that will happen, they change as they get older, or the new ones get larger. So I think it is hard to tell from just the leaves, we have not idea how they will mature. Thanks Milan

If anyone is interested, here is another site that has a very nice pic of the H. motoskei.....maybe someone has posted this person's link already but she has very nice photos of both leaves and flowers on many varieties of Hoyas...I am glad you got this one figured out Ingrid!
http://www.myhoyas.com/custom142.html

Sandy

HI Paredise, tried to e-mail you thu D G . It was about your cuttings. It got kicked back to me. Would you try e-mailing me? Thanks, Binky :))))))