The new issue of Stemma is shipping out today! For anyone who hasn't subscribed who wishes to, just drop me an e-mail at markroy68@yahoo.com and I will add you to the e-mail list. After today, I won't be sending out the first issue with new subscriptions, so you will have to find someone who already has it to share it with you (which should be easy enough).
This issue features the real Hoya fraterna (the one pictured here ain't it!) and a guide to mounting Dischidia from Antone Jones.
Mark
Got my STEMMA and I really enjoyed the articles!!! Great photos!
Thanks Mark. Great articles and photos.
Patti
This was my first issue and I'm mad I didn't get the first one! Mark and all who contributed, you did a fantastic job. You answered 2 questions for me in just this one issue. A generous forum member sent me 2 plants labeled H. fraterna ssp. meliflua last year and your article on H. fraterna answered my questions. YEA! I also recently recieved in trade H. engleriana which I now believe to be H. dickasoniana. The tag on this one is 10X bigger than the cuttings but I keep finding more or different info.
Thanks again and God bless. -joanne
Oops. Here is my H. dickasoniana (?)
Joanne...nice looking baby plants....mine love being outside in the cool and lots of water. BTW...it is H. weebella that is thought to be H. dickasoniana...H. engleriana, I believe, has a fatty,flattish, tiny leaf...but round.
Aloha,
Carol
Ok, so I'm still confused. I'll try for a better photo of the leaf later today but my goodness, they are small! These leaves don't seem to be round but heck, I keep getting this one wrong. It was sent to me as H. engleriana.
Mark ...the new Stemma is outstanding. I am really enjoying it.
I also love the way you cleared up any confusion or misspellings, etc. from the first issue in such a thorough manner with all that research...and so "gentlemanly".
Congrats on such a great work.
Marcy
Maybe I am thinking of H. endauensis.
Marcy...I totally agree with you. Mark did not only a great sleuthing job but a calm and UNemotional presentation of facts. I continue to be more and more impressed!!!
Thanks everybody, I appreciate the comments! Yes, the corrections department was tricky, but rewarding.
Carol, did you mean to say the reverse about engleriana/ dickasoniana? I think Joanne probably has engleriana, which has tiny rice-like leaves, and H. dickasoniana/weebella has tiny round fatter leaves? How about a photo of one of your dickasoniana, I saw a nice little row of happy looking ones in your greenhouse recently.
Mark, thanks for another great issue. The artwork and photos were wonderful.
The new font style was a good idea too.
I also appreciated the extensive research you did to provide the background information behind the corrections. I found that section to be as entertaining as any short story I have read lately.
Louise
Great issue, Mark!!!
Ann
OK...photo tomorrow. I really don't know what I meant.... LOL ;>)
Thanks for sending the issue so quickly Mark. Can't wait to read it!
Gabi
Mark - Please add my name to the list of those impressed with this issue. Thanks! I look forward to the fall issue already. Karen
Epiaddict, I believe you have the engleriana. I have attached a picture of my engleriana and dickinsonia/weebella together in the hope it will help. The engleriana, left, has a box round one of the leaves in blue. The leaves are rice-shaped, a bit flatter when they are first made (as it were) and then become succulent over time. I would say they're only a couple of mm wide. They are also very slightly hairy. The weebella, right, and with a red box round one of the leaves, is much flatter and wider. The leaves seem to be pretty much glabrous to me. Also there is a noticeable mid-rib down each leaf as opposed to the engleriana which, when succulent, doesn't have.
I hope that helps... Hills, not having a very good day
Cool, Hills...very good illustration. Thanks OH...I just saw that...Oh dear...Hills, hope your day gets MUCH better!!
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Hills - hope your day gets better...!
The next issue of Stemma is going to have Hoya lacunosa as the In cultivation feature. I have some good closeups, but could really use some good shots of mature, blooming plants, particularly of 'Tove',"heart shaped leaf", and the new flecked leaf cultivar. If anyone has good photos of these that they would like to contribute, please send them to me via regular e-mail at : markroy68@yahoo.com
Hills, thank you so much. It's definitely H. engleriana according to your photos. I'm sorry you had a bummer day but you sure made mine brighter. Take care and God bless. -joanne
