Well here's another terrible photo of a very beautiful bloom. This is the one I have tagged as H. sp. Laos X H. vitellina, or H. cv. Joy.
I only saw the bloom in the dark under flashlight last night. This morning I saw it as the sun was coming up. Tonight when I got home half of the bloom was fading already.
DH took this photo for me. The picture is terrible but notice the beads of nectar? He said they were almost as large as one of the flowers.
Adding a photo of the leaves on "Joy" for ID.
As a side note: H. pubicalyx Red Buttons has one flower open this evening. It's taken forever for the buds to mature.
I'm going crazy now because the more I look at it the more I think the tags are wrong. This looks more like the H.vitellina X H. vitellinoides leaves and the corollas are light pink. Can't take anymore....off to bed. No more wandering out in the dark tonight.
Is that bloom as big as it appears? Too bad it didn't last long.
The mystery continues Susan. Is this the first bloom on your plant? Seems the first blooms blast really fast, if in fact they make it to bloom. My cv. joy should open any day now.
NB when I first looked at your heading I couldn't help but think of "The artist formally known as Prince":-). So the hoya mystery continues.
Blessings,
Awanda
You are exactly correct Awanda! Ah ha....Joy appears to be equally exotic and talented!
Susan,
This is the first day the blooms opened on my H cv. Joy. Looks like our labels are the same as our flowers.
Mel, I swear the tags are switched.
Look at the leaves on yours. I could be crazy but you can almost see the "vitellinoides" in it.
My other plant has a noticable metallic sheen to the leaf when out of direct light. I took it inside and put it under a flourescent light. You can see the sheen. That one is tagged H. vitellina X H. vitellinoides.
I think the one that bloomed is H. cv. Noelle. Maybe yours is too?
I am changing my tags around.
Do you have both plants? Maybe only mine are switched.
I don't have a clue, Susan! I do not have the other one. I am in total cv. confusion!
I just looked on Carols catalog. Her cv. Joy flower picture looks like the one you and I posted. Am I missing something?
My plant does have the red margin on the leaves.
This message was edited Jun 8, 2005 7:45 PM
HI....me again. In my plants...the H. cv. Joy has the maroon margins in sun....and the H. cv. Noelle has dark margins, at times, but they are not maroon.... at some point we just have to say...BASTA...and call them what we "can figure out they are called"...life is too short. When in doubt, the aff. or the cfw (compares favorably with) can save us! LOL
Carol
I am not ready to say Basta...tho the day may come. Check out the bloom that opened today on the same plant. I will untangle the plant after it blooms. There were 3 cuttings in the plant when I purchaced it a H. metallica. Possible that both cv's were in the same pot???
We may be beating a dying horse...the leaves may take on different margins/clor etc. in different environments...maybe.... huh?
Ok, last word on this. Call this thread dead afterwards.
Mel's second photo is what my flower looked like on the second and third day. The corollas only stayed reflexed from the time it opened in the evening till the next day. By the time I got home from work the flower looked like yours above.
Mine is getting ready to bloom again - like tonight maybe. And I have another spur starting.
She's a beauty......
Agreed Susan. The first real bloom flush is just exciting. Most of my flowers have been reflexed since the day they opened and the above bloom total opposite. I was not trying to beat a dead horse...just psyched about the blooms.
Me either Mel.....LOL..... We just get so darn excited about it all! She is the first I have had with a yellow bloom. Love it!
