OK...here is a start:
The flowers in the picture - I.D. them. Contest closes on Friday morning, June 24 at 8 a.m. PDT. The first correct answer wins a large plant and the Canadians will win a HUGE cutting. Send in the IDs and there will be no comments on the entries as to right or wrong until the contest closes.
HINT: we are dealing with one plant here. It is a species hoya.
Hoya PNG sp 1
Blessings,
Awanda
This message was edited Jun 21, 2005 9:37 AM
Hoya species HSI 037?
I'm going to guess PNG- 4?
Cindy
Wild guess.......H. tomataensis
Awww darn I am horrible at ID's even get messed up on my own kids sometimes.. But it sure is a beauty.
Yep...nice grower too!
LOL old_rose...
Hoya. sp. PNG-1?
Hoya PING-1 and Pubicalyx Red Button
sorry about typo's was a off day!
Hoya sp.PNG-1 and Pubicalyx Red Buttons
I can't wait to find out!!!!
This message was edited Jun 22, 2005 6:41 AM
My guess is a H. purpureo-fusca??
Hoya sp. PNG-1
This message was edited Jun 21, 2005 1:56 PM
Publicalyx 'Royal Hawaiian Purple
I agree with Ispahan and will also guess Hoya HSI-037....
edited: I must be having a brain spasm, now i reread Carol's post and it says first correct answer..lol...oh well, i tried!..
This message was edited Jun 21, 2005 4:53 PM
Hoya pubicalyx 'Red Buttons'
Marcy
You guys are really terrific!!!
There is a correct answer...at least one. Shall we announce the winners?
Sure, go for it!
Oh, Please do tell us :) Were excited to know!
LOL Nah, lets get her up!! :)...I didn't think about the time difference ...I guess we can let her sleep an hour or so more ha ha ha
OK OK...I heard you guys. So now I am up....what's next? Oh yeah
Awanda was the first to correctly ID it - however, the name was not written correctly.
Susan wasn't first to ID it, but to write it correctly!
Guess both should get prizes, eh? I don't think I am being hardnosed about the name thingy, do you? Just like people, names are indicators for identification...
So, Awanda and Susan...here's a little glitch in the contest:- could you let us know how you came to ID the two flowers as H. sp. PNG-1?????????
Cindy is close with H. sp. PNG-4...the plants are very similar as are the flowers.
What amazes me is that not more people thought it was two different flowers. They are from the same plant and differ in size and color. Goes to show that color is NOT a reliable indicator for IDing.
Aloha, Carol
NEXT Contest coming soon to a thread near you.
Carol, you don't have to send me a plant. I wasn't first.
I narrowed it down to H. sp. PNG-1 or H. sp. PNG - 4 based on what I could see of the leaves. Basically eliminating other species with easily recognizable flowers of similar shape and color.
I decided on H. sp. PNG -1 because of the white coloration in the center of the corona. I didn't see that on PNG-4.
Good deducing!!!
You will get one anyway, whether you want one or not!!!
LMAO
Well I wish I could give you this complicated answer on how I figured out the answer, but I can't. I simply went and looked on your photo compendium:-).
Blessings,
Awanda
GREAT! That means it was worth putting them all up!!!
More pictures to come, too - lots are blooming or about to.
This message was edited Jun 22, 2005 12:40 PM
LOL, that's what I did too. Just too bad I wasn't quicker! LOL :)
AHHH, excellent going Awanda and Susan!
This is the same plant as IML-70??? I bought it last spring from David Liddle, but, have not seen a bloom. Nice to know what it will look like. If memory serves me, I have had more than one name attached to this Hoya. I orderd it from David thinking it was H. kenjiana and if my memory serves me, it also has had H. aff. rubidia attached to it at one time.
Fabulous flower!
Contests! Oh! how fun. Too bad I didn't check in before now.
Congratulations! Susan & Awanda.
Gemila
