Just wanted to share a picture of my obovata. I just LOVE this plant - the leaves are like paddles - very cool! I'm really into hoyas with "interesting" leaves - most of my last Hawaiian order were hoyas with cool leaves. Anybody have any favorite "cool-leafed" hoyas they want to share (to give me an idea of others to order the next time???!!!) Karen
Another view - like I said, I really love this plant!
I am partial to H. erythrina too. I love those ruffled leaves.
Karen I really like obovata too, I was watering today and noticed one of my plants has 4 peduncles budding up:) However my plant does not have a plasma screen it can twirl around !! I will have to check up on that. H. excavata has really cool thick paddle leaves, the finlaysonii group are some of my favorite leaves. Oh yea and one I just got recently had very jurassic leaves, H. clemensorium... Way cool..
My favorites as far as cool/neat leaves go and not in any particular order are ----deykei--all of the finlaysonii group--retusa--obovata--carnosa compacta/hindu rope--pauciflora--subquintuplinervis--longifolia
dmichael
Thanks for the "cool leaf" recommendations! Tami - I have hoyas, DH has the TV!
Karen there are lots of others that I like with neat leaves just too many to list. Hoya latifolia IML 88 is a favorite simply because of the leave size. I'm a pretty average sized guy,with a fairly good sized hand and the leaves on that plant are larger thatn my hand.
If you want huge leaves you would like latifolia (IML88)-- cintrina--glabra and i'm sure there are plenty of others with jolly green giant type leaves!!!
dmichael
LOL - jolly green giant type leaves - yup, that's what I like!
...BIG leaves: also H. pentaphlebia, H. rigida, H. monetteae, H. meliflua ssp. fraterna, H. aff. latifolia, H. tjadamanguensis (spelling?), H. aff. clemensiorum, H. aff. anulata
....and the beat goes on....
