I have been going through pictures all day, but can't quite place this one.
Another noid is blooming
The leaves that are surrounding the bloom are the correct leaves.
Very nice and healthy. I know someone will know the correct name.
:) Donna
HI...looks like H. verticillata to me. Smells good too, eh?
I don't believe it is H. verticillata. My verticillata already bloomed and is white and pink. This hoya is red in the center. I am thinking it must be H. acuta. Of all of the pictures I have looked at, this one looks the most like it. I will try to find more pictures of the leaves of H. acuta to compare it with.
I believe Ric has H. acuta , maybe he can tell me if it looks like his.
Carol, wanna jump in and explain the acuta/verticillata/paracitica mess?
I have heard that verticillata is the true name for these three, but I don't know the story behind the explanation...
I have several verticillata described on my website. Feel free to compare with these: http://www.myhoyas.com/Hoya%20verticillata.htm (Links to each verticillata at the bottom of the text.)
Whatever hoya you have there, it's a nice looking plant and cute flowers!
Christina
This message was edited Aug 21, 2005 3:15 PM
Christina, Mine looks like your second verticillta picture. So you are saying that all three of these hoya's are actually different verticillata's?
That whole verticillata/acuta/parasitica thing is a dogs breakfast!!! I get that glazed look whenever I hear the explanation so I simply just grow H. verticillata...and have about 5 clones of it. From what David Liddle says it is very versatile ... Everytime I turn around one of my noids looks like H. verticillata...I got a H. parasitica from Anders and I am anxious to see what it is...but I think all of the three are running around ARE H. verticillata.
Patricia...flower color means Nothing. For instance...Christina's H. camphorifolia flower on the cover of t he magazine is a light pink...mine is a dark pink. Now...if one has NO color at all...then I think it would mean something.
You might look at the different angles of the flower here:
http://www.bigislandgrowers.com/AHcomp/AHvert1.php
Carol
It sure get's confusing doesn't it
Whatever it is, it looks great!
Thanks so much !! It seems like I have so many bought as one thing only to turn out to be another. But it is sure fun waiting for the blooms to open to see what they turn out to be.
It's very lovely. It seems there are a number of hoyas that have a great deal of variation in them.
(quote) "It's very lovely. It seems there are a number of hoyas that have a great deal of variation in them." (end quote)
Boy, that is an understatement. When I first decided to look up "hoyas" to get some info on my old carnosa, little did I know what I would run into on the WWW. Ha!
Most varieties of plant familys look pretty much the same except for the flowers or varigation, etc. I was really surprised to find so very many different shapes, sizes, textures, leaf patterens and sizes, and the diversity of the flowers is not just in color, but in overal form, size, and shape. It is almost like they are different types of plants & not even in the same family sometimes.
That is one of the things I love about them. There is something for any taste you have or mood you may be in. You can have a hundred all together, and yet your windows look as if you collect many varieties of houseplants.
Trouble is.....once you get hooked, you keep wanting to get the next one you don't have. It's an addiction you know. :-)
Marcy
LOL That's great since I seem to be very good at collecting more that one of each based on the fact that the leaves look a bit different. I can see that they are addicting since I'm already feeling the way I once did with orchids and then brugmansias. I'm looking forward to being addicted to plants that I think will be a lot less time consuming and in the case of brugmansias, take up a lot less space.
Sandy
Too right!