Tami...here is how my IML 1514 bloomed.
Guess the colors are about the same....and yours had no fragrance?
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August Blooms
Love those white edges. I'm so excited because I ordered vitellina from David Liddle.
Splendid, it does double in size !! I really didn't smell anything. I do have alot of sinus congestion this time of year though. I can barely smell the lacunosa and cv. sunrise, and those little guys are potent. Thanks for finding and posting the flower Carol, there budding up again so I hope it's fuller, and hopefully I will be able to get a better sniff.
Boojum, you lucky girl... Your going to be happy when that beauty blooms :)
Oh wow, I was getting ready to add vitellina to my ever growing hoya want list and then realized I already have it, one of my newer cuttings, as fuscomarginata! I almost feel as good as if I had gotten a brand new plant.
Jen...if it does have dark edges, then it IS fuscomarginata...
I just had to share with everyone these adorable freckles on H. bhutanica - the buds haven't opened yet (I hope they do!), but even closed they look cool.
Ann
Carol...it does have dark edges, around the very edges of the leaves. I got it from someone here who I am sure had the name right, and it is such a healthy cutting, rooted almost immediately and starting to show new growth in only about a months time. I love it.
Does anyone have H. lyi? Any pics of foliage or flowers?
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Ann,
please post a pic when they open....i have been looking for pics of blooms of this one and cant find any ...they do look very cool even closed...
Sandy
Arnottiana finally open. This has the most intense smell of any hoya I have grown to date. When I opened the front door after being away for a few days (when it opened), I could smell it pervading the house. Very spicy and sweet, similar to H. acuta but much stronger.
YAY Mark!!! Do you grow yours like H. carnosa? Mine bloomed the first year and then NADA!!!
Jen...For years (having been told by a 'hoya expert' in the SE USA that the plant I had was H. vitellina....I sold my H. fuscomarginata as H. vitellina. Perhaps that is how you were misled...or by someone else who embraced this expert's opinion. I am convinced the leaf with the dark margins is H. fuscomarginata (and called such by Ted Green and others) and H. vitellina is entirely different...a rather nondescript leaf.
Cheese....gotta goose my H. arnotiana....
So is Christina's bloom from fusco-marginata or from the REAL vitellina?
I have a plant bought from Kartuz labeled "vitellina" and one bought from a cactus nursery as 'fusco-marginata'. The both look the same to me, however, only the one from Kartuz has bloomed. It did not look like Christina's bloom. It looked rather like a verticillata bloom. Ha
Marcy
Very nice pictures everyone!! Ann, my bhutanica is getting quite huge, but no buds yet....actually, I am not sure that I even have pecuncles....HMMMM.
Sara
Great shot Mark!
It will, Sara, it will. Meanwhile, you can play scratch-n-sniff with mine :-)
This is the one that Ted Green interprets as vitellina. The photo is from Carol's greenhouse. I think Christina's is considered to be fusco-marginata?
Carol, arnottiana is one of the hoyas I grow outside all year long. I had read it could tolerate cool temperatures, and it seems to like it out there. It grows well and has very healthy leaves. It started budding up, still outside, earlier this summer, when the temperatures were ranging from the mid 50's at night to the mid 70's during the day.
It still is filling the house with fragrance, and only with one umbel open!
O.K. I have the fusco-marginata, but my leaves didn't, leaves, I mean flower did not have the pink corona? like Christina. I am destined not to have any pink in any of my hoya's .
Mark, beautiful flower, nice crisp white. And really glad to here that it's a good potent smeller.
Love the freckles Ann !!
The CLUE to H. vitellina is "Egg Yolk colored corollas"....
The CLUE to H. fuscomarginata is the red or dark margin on the leaves and the leaf is quite different.
Basically, I am usually Clueless. LOL
Took some photos when I went on a short Hoya-trip last week. Here's glabra for you...
...and erythrina...
...and vanuatuensis...
...and a sort of apricot/yellow clone of obscura...
...and here are my own flowers on hellwigiana...
Wow! What great pictures.
Many thanks.
Okay I need to take a trip to Sweden!!!!!!! Those are awesome pics. I have glabra and cant wait to see it bloom!!!
Any time you want! I'll guide you... and I have a spare bedroom!
/Christina
I totally cheated on this one. I purchased this from Carol as a specimen with buds already forming on it - who cares, its GLORIOUS!
Oink
:-)
edited to say, it's an H. vitellina
Edited again to say, Whoops, got the name wrong ........ It's an H. verticillata! Apparently my brain was stolen by underwear gnomes. :-)
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Beautiful. However...those do NOT appear to be "egg yolk colored" corollas. Now I really AM confussed. Ha...nothing new.
Whooooooops! I meant to say H. verticillata!
Thanks for the corrections Mark and Marcy!!!
Ann
OY! Well, I finally have a pic to post of multiflora. Wish I had lots of blooms so I could join in more. Hmmmmm. On second thought beware of what you wish for. I have 200 dl varieties, 120 beardless irises, 30 hippeastrums, 30 epiphyllums and 160 orchids. It's okay to have a few of something right??
That is a lovely shot boojum!
Ann
Underwear knomes!!! That's nasty!!!!!
Yes, dmichael ... they are very nasty!
Meanwhile ... the cheaty embarrassment of riches continues... the specimen H. bhutanica that I bought from carol had two sets of blooms open tonight - it smells DIVINE!!!
This set is partially reflexed
edited to say, you can't see it very well in this photograph, but there is a slight shade of lilac on the inner tips of the corona - makes for a very interesting looking little bloom
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And here's an umbel just opening
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooh - I sent both plants just before they bloomed FOR THE FIRST %$#&&^%!! TIME.
smiling sweetly with her hands folded neatly in her lap, legs not folded, she says........
:>(((())))
Great shot Ann! I am sure glad to know the underwear gnomes visit others too.
Your multiflora is beautiful Boo. It sounds like you are not short on Blooms!
Carol, you can scratch-n-sniff them! I think the H. bhutanica smells like lilacs. It's so very delightful!!!
Thanks Mel, I'm glad I'm not alone!!
Thanks, meltn. Actually my multiflora has a lot of blooms, too. 5 clusters going now.
When I got this from Carol last week and saw those little tiny buds I said to myself there's no way thes buds are gonna make flowers as big as what Carol says H. patella flowers get. Boy did those little buds make a liar out of me!!!
In just under a week this bud has gone from being the size of an actual open lacunosa flower to now being almost the size of a quarter. It looks like it's going to pop any day now and I cant wait!!!!
This H. patella pink form
Oh, that is glorious dmichael!!!!! I can't wait to see it open!