Okay I am baffled, on my hoya collecting runs lately I keep seeing this plant i could swear is h. curtisii, or d. ruscifolia. First of all (never having owned or seend these plants in anything but the dg & google pics) are these 2 different plants, or do people sometimes just call the hoya a dichidia or vice versa? (I have seen the flower of the curtisii and they look like a hoya to me, i have never seen and dischidia flower...). And then secondly...the flower on this plant i keep seeing are not like the curtisii, they are small single and purple - but the foliage looks just like all the pics i have seen of the other 2! In the store i keep seeing it they label all their hoyas and dischidias "hoya" but this plant was named "cucculent/cacti" (though i know these labels don't always hold accurate...). I am dying to know what this plant is, is there anyone who knows what the dichidia flowers look like, or have photos of either of these plants (or anything that might look like it?). anything distinctive to look for in the h. curtisii other than heart leaves? I have noticed most hoya leaves grow off the stem in a similar and distinctive way - but I am still new at this!
Abbie
A million hearts - dischidia, hoya, alias, & identity theft!
Here is a site with the dischidia ruscifolia.
http://florawww.eeb.uconn.edu/acc_num/200300265.html
thanks, I certainly wasn't admiring a dischidia!
I sent you a dmail.
Patti
Abbie...
Dischidia and Hoya are 'first cousins'...very similar in growth and plant structure. The Dischidia flowers, however, are more 'urn' shaped...they do not open like a hoya with rotate (star shaped) or turned back flowers...and the D. flowers tend to be much smaller. Does that help?
Tremendously, thanks!
You could be looking at a ceropegia rosery vine. they have small purple flowers are heart shaped leaves could look like a curtisii. sorry not sure where to find a picture.
I have a rosary vine .... will post a pic tomorrow to this thread ... the leaves do look very similar to the H. curtisii. I would post a photo now, but I'm not home and don't have any of my photo's downloaded to my laptop! I only saw the resemblance when I rec'd a cutting of the hoya curtisii in a trade ... at first I thought it was a cutting of the ceropegia rosary vine!
Lin
Here's a photo of my ceropegia 'rosary vine' ... I think the leaves do look almost identical to the Hoya curtisii.
