Wouldn't it be cool to show some cool leaves?
I'll start with one I received 2 days ago: sp. PNG 436 (looks and feels like an eriostemma) with a leaf that is 15 cm (6 inches) long.
Christina
How about some cool leaves?
Was thinking the same as my plants are producing some beautiful new leaves. Will whip out the camera this weekend. The "archie" has some particularly pretty deep dark leaves right now.
Stand by....
Great! Looking forward to seeing more leaves. Here's my all time favourite: obscura.
Christina
Christina, that is such a cool obscura leaf! I am going to bust out the camara & take some pictures of cool leaves as well.
Ann
I LOVE this h. callistophylla!! It really is a good thing I like leaves, 'cuz I'm not seeing alot of blooms yet!!!
Here's another big one. It's actually Matts excavata but it's in my hand!
Christina
Found this big one on Joy today. The smaller one is also from the same plant, but an older leaf from late fall... Looks almost like they are from two different plants!
Christina
Nice leaves !
I like the colour of this leaf from my caudata.
The photos above are great. Didn't have much time today so here's a not too great photo of the best leaf I found during a quick search!
H. deykei
I used to think deykei was a hoya that I didn't want. THAT leaf is looking great and I just might rethink on this one... The leaves are quite big too, aren't they...? I got this "thing" for big leafed ones...
Christina
This leaf is about the size of my hand. Pretty one as it's brand new. They do fade into obscurity with age. Deykei hasn't bloomed for me yet. It's an easy plant. Give it bright shade or dappled sunlight. Have mine in a clay pot so it doesn't get over watered.
Oh I like the leaves on H. deykei Susan, I think I may have one of these comming. Here is one I got from David Little this spring. H. cominsii. I was surprised to see how red this one gets.
Wow, Tami! I like that leaf!!
Me too! I like ALL leaves that turns red from the sun... anulata, pentaphlebia, cv. Joy, bordenii, pottsii... Here's pentaphlebia for you.
Christina
It would have been good to upload the photo too...
Christina
Wow...Christina...that is a strange red color that one turned. It is rather pinkish. Does it always get that color?
Christina..If you dont' mind me asking...where did you get pentaphlebia and obscura.
And thanks for listing out the ones that get red :) I am really hoping to get more that get red..since I am putting them in my screen enclosure :)
Very pretty red Christina, looks like a pomegranite red..
Lotta, Tami and Christina, the leaves you posted are just stunning. Have been too busy to post but have been back to look at them several times! How do you do this???????
Marcy, just about the whole plant has gotten more or less red this spring. It's in the same window as my caudata and that one is also very red and I really like it. In between these two I have my litoralis and it's still as green as it was when I got it. A rather fun observation!
Chris, in Sweden it's quite easy to find hoyas. Even the more uncommon ones. Why don't you check with Carol in Hawaii (Aloha Hoyas)? I'm sure she has both.
Thanks for all your comments!
Christina
OK...I will try to post a couple of pics.
Here is my Deykei that I started from a cutting I got from Norma with just a couple of leaves 2 years ago. I love the heart like leaves also.
And this is my biggest leafed hoya. It was labled H. Loyceandrewsiana when I got it, but I think it has been determined that these are really H. Latifolia. Is this correct?
At any rate....they are some BIG leaves. Slow grower though. I think it grows like one leaf a year. Ha.
Marcy
Christina..I checked with her :( and she doesn't have the obscura (not the split leaf)...I will need to keep looking though, it is stunning :)
Chris, that split leaf is on my obscura plant. It's what they call a siamese leaf. Didn't mean to mislead you.
I also have a split leaf on my chlorantha, but that's also the only one on the plant.
Christina
I have an unusual leaf formation on one of my plants too. I got this labeled H. 'Kim' from September Song Nursery a long time ago. Since there is no such hoya, I think it is a cv of some Australis, but since it hasn't bloomed, I don't know.
Anyway, the two leaves opposite each other have a strange tip (or end) to them. They formed a kindof "heart" with a tip on one side. Also it is one the exact opposite side on the opposing leaves. All the other leaves on this plant are typical Australis type with a pointy tip to the leaves. Isn't that weird?
Marcy
That IS weird, but cool! Now all you have to do is get it to bloom so we get to see what it is! :-))
Christina
Here's a little something else: rigida. It is a bit "sad" in the photo, but then it had travelled for 11 days before it reached me. It's 21 cm long and 13 cm wide, which would be 8.5 inch long and a little over 5 inches wide.
Christina
I love this post. Great idea! Leaves are often underrated, lol. Thanks everyone for posting. Sorry I haven't been able to check in very often. Just finished my garage sale yesterday. Will be having friends stopping by all week to grab what didn't sell. Then the rest will be off to various charities. Busy girl. Need to remember to stop and gaze at the hoyas. Thanks for the reminders everyone.
Heather
Oh ah :) So it is not how the leaves look :) It was my mistake Christina :) they are simply gorgeous none the less :)
I am gonna have to look for some siamese leaves :)
I guess it happens when the leaves fuse together? Makes sense :)
This message was edited May 23, 2006 6:00 PM
Time to bring this back to the top. Here's another rigida (about 20 cm long).
Christina
And a cute little hellwigiana (only about 5 cm long) but oh so cute!!
Christina
And finally some new leaves on naumanii. Love those leaves!
Christina
I love this leaf...And yes, Christina, it IS rather big...=)))
It is my purpureofusca.
OK.....I've got some more now.
First is a pretty Kerrii leaf that is fairly new
I got this plant labled H. australis 'Silver Valley'
Then it grew this weird leaf. All the rest are normal.
That leaf grew that way, it was not cut off or anything.
This message was edited Jun 1, 2006 1:58 PM
