I noticed on my Bhutanica ( that's what it came labeled as) this morning that it has two totally different leaves on the it. I've posted a picture in my photo album. The shorter one has a really succulent feel to it, while the longer one doesn't.
Blessings,
Awanda
Wow....that's neat! I will have to look over my plants and see if any of them are doing that too.
....one of the reasons IDing from leaves is so hard...something they change DRAMATICALLY!!! I have a H. mindorensis...one plant...half the leaves look like a different plant with darker green, bigger and thicker leaves.... Kinda like have twice as many hoyas!!!!
Aloha,
Carol
I wonder if they are 'mutating" back to one of their parent plants? I know with some variegated or hybrid plants they can begin growing branches that are not variegated or colored the same as the rest of the plant (Euonymus, Phormiums, etc....). Do you think this might be the same thing? Or perhaps a sport instead?
Karen
I don't know what has caused this, but the leaves look like they are from two completely different plants. I thought it was very interesting. I guess hoyas are like human families, you can have two children from the same family that look totally different.
Blessings,
Awanda
They are living things after all! God is mysterious, isn't he? I think he does these things to keep us from getting bored! Or to see if we're paying attention!!!! :~D
And this was the subject at the Huntington Gardens this morning. I was shown a plant, not a Hoya, that was exactly doing this. I couldn't believe what I was looking at. One leave was sword like the other wide and flat.
Two entirely different profiles. Norma
Ah...reverting to parentage, perhaps?
