I purchased one of these guys 6-7 months ago (the one on your right) and the one on your left I purchased yesterday...both at Home Depot...the one on the right was not named and the one I got yesterday says "Hoya Bilobata" Hoya Carnosa but it sure doesn't look like the Bilobata I see on line.....does anyone have an idea as to what either of these are? Thank you so much for any help...Deb
the one on the right looks like a lacunosa. the one on the left looks like a regular green carnosa, but I'm just guessing. I'll let the experts weigh in on their id
Too right! The one on the right looks like H. lacunosa (ssp. palidaflora). On the left is not like any H. carnosa I have seen. Off hand I would say H. verticillata...but hard to tell. I could be mucho wrong, tho'.
you'll find out once they show you their flowers
This is a closer view of both...the one on the right had a bloom acouple months ago but while watering I leaned up against the stem and crushed it....I have number of hoya's that I don't have names for and never really worried about it before until now that I belong to this group....if I have one that someone would like I would realize it and can share....I'll be working hard to identify each and every one...thank you for the help...Deb
a fuzzy yellow bloom?
I'm sorry...it hadn't opened so I think you call it something else....it was just the stem with the beginning of the blossom head...just a tight group of white buds that had not started to open.....Is that what you call a "peduncle ??" Deb
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Depsi.... The peduncle is the whole thing that is going to make a flower. Some call it a 'bloom spur' but that isn't correct. The fat end that looks like a microphone is call the rachis. When it starts to form the flower buds, and then flowers, it is called an umbel. So you will get an umbel of flowers at the end of the rachis which is on a peduncle... At least that is how I understand it!!!
I have one that looks just like your's on the left. It's one of those Exotic Angel Plants, labeled Hoya 'Bilobata' .... but EE plants are almost always mislabeled so I'm not paying any attention to the tag on it, will wait for blooms to find out the real ID. I find 95% of the EE House Plants mislabeled.
I got this particular Hoya at Wal-Mart a few months ago. Wal-Mart is now selling EE's like Home Depot and Lowes.
Hope you will post a photo if you get a bloom.
Taking another look at the one on the left...it looks like it could be H. sp. DS-70 (once called H. burtoniae and also H. tsangii) Is the back side of the leaf a lighter green with no main costa showing thru...the whole leaf is kinda thick and feels like a very short nap of hairs on it?
Carol
Looks like DS-70 and lacunosa to me, but as always I could be wrong.
I'd guess DS-70 also - I've gotten two of the EA tsangiis or DS-70s thinking they were two slightly different plants. The first one I got had shorter oval leaves. The second one looks more like yours - leaves larger and more pointed at the tip. They both bloom exactly the same, though, and new growth is very similar on both. So I suspect it had to do with perhaps different light conditions where they were grown. Does anyone know if EA has more than one plant in different areas?
Denise in Omaha
Here's a photo of mine that I think looks a lot like Depsi's top photo on the left. Do you think it's DS-70 .... it was labeled 'Bilobata'.
I think I just answered my own question. I forgot, one of the little ones I bought from Aloha Hoya's is a DS-70 .... the leaves are identical just a lot larger on the photo above. Here's a photo of the little one sitting in front of the hanging basket. They are identical plants .... DS-70.
Thanks so much for all the help!
Yup!
I held onto a a hoya I had mislabeled for years, and grew it in the shade. It had lovely deep green leaves while all my DS-70s had lots of red (grown in higher light). The leaves were also bigger, lusher...it bloomed.... DS-70. Now it grows in higher light and is almost purple!
Joke is on ME!
Carol
Carol ... Thanks! I have another question. Why does this particular Hoya have a name like DS-70 instead of a regular name like some of the others?
Mine looks just like yours does, front & back, Plantlady....I trimmed all the dry shoots off of it and repotted it into my coir mix immediately....it was just so wet yet the new growth was dry and shriveled....I have it in my "intensive care unit" right now and will leave it alone for awhile & see what happens....I recieved the David Liddle catalogue and so excited to get a few I've always wanted...think from now on I will go this way instead of purchasing them off the box stores...I was very dissapointed with HD...the plant was in a 6" pot and showed to be on sale from $7.97 to $5.88...when I got up to the register they charged me $9.97 and when I questioned it, the clerk and I went back to check the sale & yes, she agreed with me...while standing there a lady who I believe must've been assigned to that dept came up and asked if we needed a question answered & the clerk told her why I was questioning the price....the dept person said "cause they are Angel Plants and they're a higher price"...when I argued the price the plant was marked & what group of plants it was with + it being in a 6" pot (the $9.97 ones where on another rack and in larger pots) she said it was mistakenly marked & that was the price...just take it or leave it attitude...I did purchase the plant but have stewed about it since...small amount of money but it put me off on HD...this was not the first time I've encountered a problem with them on price marking...anyway, thank you guys so much for the help...I'm especially interested in what you refer to as "string bean hoya" and would like to find another hindu rope/compacta as well as a keerii. I have a varigated keerii but I had the solid in the past & my goodness, it was a good grower...once I start getting some flowers on my existing ones I'll be sharing pics...I just love Hoyas & stapelia & schumbergera and have decided to just collect these species until Uncle Santa Claus brings me a Greenhouse for Christmas...are you listening, Uncle Santa????? Deb
AH, the name? Here is the short version of a long story. It used to be called H. burtoniae. But then it was decided that it was NOT that, but that it was H. tsangii. Then the same person who made the first error said that H. tsangii was not correct either. The plant came from the collection of a man named David Silberman (Silverman...something like that) and in his collection it was given the number 70...thus DS-70. Until it is decided what it really is - or isn't - better to call it H. sp. DS-70.
HTH-Carol
