Hi all!
Just had to share this. My NOID that I bought in July 1999 finally bloomed. On the leaves it looked like it could be chuniana and it was!
Here are the flowers: http://www.myhoyas.com/Hoya%20chunii%20flowers.htm ( edited to say that THIS LINK DOESN'T WORK)
I hope you like them!
Christina
This message was edited Sep 15, 2005 3:36 AM
This message was edited Sep 15, 2005 3:37 AM
My NOID is finally blooming!
Made a mistake when uploading the file. Here's a new link: http://www.myhoyas.com/Hoya%20chuniana%20flowers.htm
Christina
Christina, that's a beautiful flower and I love the color! Any chance of seeing a picture of the plant and leaves for those of us who don't know what chuniana looks like?
I will put more photos on my website, but that might be a while before I get to it.
In the meantime, here's one of the plant taken about a year ago and a leaf. That leaf is about 5 inches long and among the bigger ones on the plant. New leaves are red!
Christina
Wow! That's another gorgeous one! Thanks for sharing your hoyas with us. Gosh, all us hoya addicts need to take a trip to Sweden (hoya convention:-)) I'm having a senior moment here and can't think of the name but it reminds me of another hoya tho the one I'm trying to think of has a smaller leaf.
Susan
That is a really pretty flower AND plant. Can't believe it took 6 years to bloom (especially for you). Ha.
The bloom looks rather round like a ball shape.
Marcy
Christina,
Another beauty.. The flower was worth waiting for. Pretty!!
Simply gorgeous! Does it have a smell?
Heather
I love the leaves and look of the plant. I would grow it for the leaves and the bloom would be a bonus!
Yes, a wonderful fragrance and it reminds me of something but I can't put my finger on it. It's in our bedroom so I get to sniff it all night... Rosita says her chuniana has a coconut like fragrance but I don't agree with her. I'll keep sniffing it until I know what it reminds me of.
Yes, the flowers were worth waiting for. I just hope they last a week which I've read that they should. There is one more peduncle, but still just tiny.
Christina
Man, you do excellent work, Christina! BEAUTIFUL!
Christina, your flowers is beautiful. I have seen the flowers today in Christinas house.
Rosita
Hi Christina....
I find my H. chuniana smells faintly of watermelon....I love it!
Carol
HOLY COW! Not thaaaaat's a SERIOUS Hoya collection!! It's absolutely breath-taking.......TWO GREEN THUMBS UP!
It's beautiful Christina. The leaves are very interesting. They don't look like any other hoya leaves I've seen in pictures.
Sandy
Christina, thanks for posting the pics of the leaves and plant. I really like the leaves on that one!
christina...here is my H. chuniana....
Carol - that one is NOT chuniana. To me that one looks like pottsii... I like the leaves!
The flowers on my chuniana is whilting now... Didn't last as long as "described", but more are coming. Found two more peduncles!!!
Christina
Hmmmmm. I must send the photo to David Liddle, then, because that's where I got the plant!!!
Later...
Carol
OK...wrote to David with the picture I posted...this is his reply....FYI -
Carol
our plant was collected by us in the foot hills of the Bismarck Range, close to the type locality of Schlechter's H. reticulata, which was changed to H. chunii by P.T. Li, and later corrected to H. chuniana.
The plant in the US and Europe as H. chuniana is a plant that was distributed By Ted Green as a PNG number, I forget which one. He got this plant from York Meredith of Sydney who was said to have been given it by André Millar. It was later determined by Chris Burton as H. chuniana. In all the sheets from PNG I have seen in Herbarium collections I have not seen this plant, which is quite different from any other H. pottsii group plant in flower indumentum and corona shape. It does not agree with the type of H. reticulata, which I have seen for a second time recently. P.T. Li did not see the type sheet when he named the plant, and did so as another Hoya had precedence to H. reticulata, and so no description is given in the text.
If you look at the type sheet and read the type description you will see my point.
David
PS - David and a group went to Papua New Guinea to retrace the track of Schlechter and to collect what he seems to have collects yea these many years ago. David is meticulous matching the sites to the write ups in the publications. Of all the hoya growers/mavens, I trust David over anyone as I have seen how he analyses and makes his determinations......
OK does this mean that Carol's is the true H chuniana ??? Or the plant Christina has ???? I have a hard time keeping all of this right in my head...................Sandy
Boy Sandy, I'm glad you said that cause I was feeling real dumb. I read and re-read that reply and STILL don't get which one is which. Ha. I am not very good at these name games either, so that makes both of us. I hate that we have to keep changing our nametags too, as more info and research determines that what we have is REALLY something else. Gcheeze!
Marcy
I just know that my plant was called Hoya sp. PNG 6 from the beginning and somewhere along the line someone decided that it should be Hoya chuniana. To keep thing easy, I'll just keep the PNG 6 name and that's it.
Christina
Sorry...I really have to go along with David Liddle - he is intellectually acute and not emotionally involved with any ID questions. :>) Carol