I have found about 9 here at a local nursery..............I found these today at a Lowe's.............the foliage is not big and hard like my other hoyas..........This first one says Hoya "Shooting Stars" , Hoya multiflora
Does anyone know what color it blooms, please..............or tell me anything about it........
Here is another one I found today..........it has big long leaves and is called Hoya "fishtail Hoya" and then the word Polyneura
they are both grown by Exotic Angel Plants.
Here is one I bought locally and the owner said it is a Hoya purpurea-fusea of Pink Silver.
I started to fertilize her and what in the world are all the brown strings that new leaves are forming on? Thanks so much
edited to say or instead of "of" before Pink Silver
This message was edited Sep 2, 2007 5:34 PM
Hi gessiegail,
The Hoya you have pictured there is Hoya Polyneura or Fishtail Hoya. I don't know what the blooms on that one are supposed to look like, I'm just learning about them myself. Hoya Shooting Stars has white flowers and much larger leaves than yours. I think Fishtail is much prettier. Great find, except for the mislabeling. Enjoy your new Hoya. I really like that one.
Lacewing
I am confused.................Are the wrong names on which ones???????????????
edited to say I have pic #1.......with the description on the plant
I have pic #2 with the description on the plant
I have pic #3 which I know is the right name because she bloomed for me...........Pink Silver
what are no. 1 and no. 2 if they are not right??????????????? thanks
This message was edited Sep 2, 2007 6:12 PM
Hey gessiegail. Switch those labels. The one you have listed as Hoya polyneura (fishtail hoya) is actually a Hoya multiflora and vice versa.
Both plants are beautiful and will provide you with some lovely blooms!!!
Here is the link to photos and info about your Hoya multiflora: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/2734/
and here is the link to info about your Hoya polyneura: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/57404/ and a link to a bloom photo: http://members.tripod.com/khedlund/hoyapdl/polyn.html
Enjoy!!
Ann
Hi Gail :))
The hoya's tend to send out their branches first (your brown strings) and then make the leaves. All those brown strings are future vines(branches)
thanks, threegardeners...............please look at each of the first two pictures.............and read the descriptions that came with each plant.............someone posted that they are wrong.............how would I know?..............looked on the exotic angel site but no picutures for them...............
I would believe MsKitty....she really knows her hoya's Gail...
Thank you both!!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't even know she had posted that threegardeners.............sorry MsKitty....................you have been so helpful!!!!!!!!!!
**********edited to say that tripod link is awesome...........thanks, MsKitty
This message was edited Sep 2, 2007 7:07 PM
oops! Sorry, I only read your first post before responding. Your photos are reversed. First one is fishtail and the other is shooting stars. If you do a search on this forum with those names you'll find lots of info.
Lacewing
Thanks to all of you.................for a beginner that web site she gave me identifies with pictures soooo many hoyas.....................
uh oh....look out African Violets...Gail's discovered Hoya's....
Do you know who started this hoya thing we have??????????????????????? None other than Snowrose..............she had commented to me that she thought she would like to undertake a new project.......hoyas..............
I replied that I knew a lady here in Taft who grew all kinds of hoyas .................that is what started all of this..............so I packed up every hoya I could find and she packed up the finest gesneriad plant material she had................ I also told her that until I had some more experience with the gesneriads I wouldn't start the hoyas.......................
Now, look at me................looking for them everywhere..............of course I use the excuse that I am looking for Snow.................
Really nice find Gail. They look BIG and healthy. I never seem to find any around here. Whenever I do find one out of town they seem to have had that short bowl haircut.
hello, winterhaven...................I spent all my summers as a young adult with 3 children and 4 more of my friends with their children in Cloudcroft, NM...................oh do we have fond memories........
I like it so much I moved Ruidoso and lived there with the kids for 11 years............so I know Alamogordo well....................
You are right.......I have a couple of baskets where the owner has trimmed every possible piece off to root..........(LOL)..............you really have a dry climate in Alamogordo..........do you ever drive down to Las Cruces? I only lived there for one year after the kids all left for college and I took upper level propagation courses at NM STate............
There are some good growers around las Cruces............Aldershot is kind of a Exotica Angel Plant grower................will they sell to the public...........I would think they would have hoyas???????????????
I am wondering if you went to the horticultural people at NM State..............if they would have hoyas..........when I was there they had greenhouses and students did all sorts of study on varying plant material...................
Hi Gail - the Marlea (compacta cv Mauna Lao) cuttings you sent me are doing great, so is the mystery rhip, both rooted and healthy!
One thing about EA is that they are notorious for mislabeling, and even if the labels are right, they have a few trade names that throw people, and then you have to worry that even if the labels ARE right, they tend to fall off and some garden center employee will put them back on....but on the wrong hoya! You will figure it out pretty quick as you become more familiar with the different varieties, and you know you can always ask someone here!
I am glad to hear you are getting more into hoyas. I think picture number three is Hoya Pubicalyx Pink Silver, a nice bushy specimen! Aren't all those vines crazy? My pink silver does the same, and they will all become full of leaves....and flowers! I think that one does best in a hanging basket, because of the vines that will eventually want to hang down or grab onto whatever they can and climb. Purpureo-fusca is a different plant, I don't believe it is a pubicalyx, and from pics I have seen (don't have the pleasure of owning one) the leaves do not resemble Pink Silver.
Do you know where i got that information of Purpureo-fusca...............she has a manual that is at least 30 years old (the owner of the nursery)...................and she wrote it down.........thanks for the right name..................
I didn't know any better and sent on a trade about 6 kinds of hoyas( cuttings)...........they were mainly mature cuttings but she sent me pictures and they are growing like crazy..........
I didnt realize that you were "into" hoyas...............I am not really because I can always get the 15 cultivars that the local lady has...........and I am just keeping ones that I know I probably won't find for a while..................
I am positive that I did not know what i was sending to you.........(LOL)
Hi Gail,
I was born and raised here. We like it. Cloudcroft is a nice getaway to the mountains and is so close it's hard to believe the climate change. We usually camp at Silver Lake. Ruidoso is beautiful too and has been claimed by the Texans. Actually most of the campgrounds are too. All you find are Texas license plates. We have made many Texan friends. Who can blame them though.
We are actually headed to Las Cruces tomorrow. I have seen Aldershot plants around before but I don't know where they are and I am not sure they would sell to the public. Rowlands closed, COLOR YOUR WORLD(Guzmans) bought it. They used to carry some hoyas but not for the last year or so. I usually check the HD and Lowes but rarely ever find anything. I have had some luck in El Paso at the HD but I dislike driving there (cause I don't know my way around). We got a HD and Lowes here several years ago. They rarely get in any hanging houseplants much less hoyas. :(
Thanks! I will have to do research on Aldershot.
If you have a Lowes they should be getting the Exotica Angels...............with lots of hoyas.....always go find the nursery manager and ask him to carry them...................I never did learn my way around El Paso..........only knew my way to the airport.................
Google Exotic Angel plants and you will find the Hermann something greenhouses in Florida.........and they have a list of all the hoyas they carry (a lot)...........
I am so busy sending out packages as I am very active on the African Violet forum.............but I will put your user Id for hoyas in my folders.........so that when I catch up, i can send you many cuttings of hoyas.................As I said, there is a lady here who doesn't always know the kind of hoya she has...............but she a lot of them................
going to my folders to remind me of you...............
gail
Thank you Gail,
I have made many, many hoya and Exotic Angel requests to the HD and Lowes nursery managers. I really mean they hardly ever get any kind of hanging plants at all. HD has had the same old hanging plants for several months. Not exaggerating either.
I'll keep on pestering them though!
Teresa
I have put it in my folder............won't forget..........it may be a month but it will get there..........
Gail, Your hoyas are beautiful. Does you friend nursery ship plants?
Patti
No she doesn't....................but I am always willing to shop for people.................and ship it.............I noticed the other day that she had in 4" pots..........Krinkle 8 for 4.00 each..........Hoya Kerri in 4" pots for 5.00 (two big cuttings in each pot, miniature variegated pots, Hindu rope 4" pots...................ALSO of australia in 4" potd< variegate regular carnosa< and she says she is going to take cuttings soon of bella and one called Hoya longifloria shepherdii .........also called Stringbean.......she said that it was the best hoya of 2005......I certainly don't know........
You are in Houston......................have you checked out your Lowe's.............they seem to get more hoyas than the nurseries except for this local lady her in taft.........
Yes I am in Houston ,but the Lowes here plants aren' t in great shape. I am really disappointed in them lately.
Patti
It is easy to ship the 4"...........I take them out of the pots for a couple of days and let them start to dry out...........wrap the balls of soil with a rubber band over wet paper towel an then in to a zip lock bag...............just ask me................
Gessiegail...I once got an order for H. purpureo fusca which I shipped. A reply came back full of anger and indignation that the plant I sent did NOT match the plant he lost. Hello???? He lost H. pubicalyx 'Pink Silver' and was furious...and he is a commercial hoya grower. Don't feel bad...it was a 'long ago and far away..." time and everyone has gone thru it!!!!
AlohaHoya..............you are making me feel better (LOL)...............I just keep making mistakes on ID's..............................thanks for your time and effort......
gail
Gail, when I was at Lowe's the other day, they had the same Hoya as in your first picture, and it was tagged as 'Shooting Stars', too. I don't know if EA is sending them out like that, or if it was just a coincidence. And if it makes you feel any better, I didn't know that it was tagged wrong, either! :o)
The people working at Lowe's crack me up...........I asked if anyone in the nursery dept. knew anything about plants...........they sent me a young man who told me it was called Exotica Angel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't have any more questions after that...........
I've given up asking anything at all at Lowe's or Home Depot. I figure if they don't know to water the plants, they don't even know as much as I do, which isn't much. LOL
Gail, you sent me cuttings about a month or so ago, but had said you were sending them about 3 or 4 months ago! Jennifer, in NJ - I didn't mind getting them late, actually I had forgotten and it was a nice surprise. The day that they came was the same day that another box from someone else came, and it felt like Christmas! The tiny little hoya you sent was "marlea" (or compacta cv Mauna Lao (spelled right?) and you also sent rhipsalis cuttings and carnosa cuttings....I already had the carnosa, so I gave them to someone who didn't - but the other two I happily kept and sent you photos of....
I saw your photos....................I am always running late.............never catch up................. I am just learning this past two weeks..............I am glad you just told me the name of the tiny hoya variegated................as the lady has a hard time with names and I know nothing a all.............
thanks
Bhavanna.................I am going to tease you about me being so late............I didn't ask for one thing in return, including postage...................giveaways with no postage and no trade usually get mailed later............I am a bit embarrassed that you said i had told you 3 o4 months ago................
The plant has a few names, carnosa cv Marlea being one I have heard, but someone else said that the name was probably
"Hoya compacta cv. Mauna Loa" I just looked it up again so I think that is the correct spelling.
Oh Gail, I am sorry, I didn't mean it that way, I am the Queen of Procrastination, and never do anything on time, so I don't judge timeliness in others! You had told me how busy you were, and I know you didn't want anything in return for them...when i mentioned the time you took to send them, it was only in connection with the pleasant surprise of getting them when they weren't expected, and to jog your memory because I got the feeling you didn't know who I was when I first posted. It may not have even been 3 or 4 months, in fact it probably wasn't.
So, please except my apology, I wasn't thinking of how it would sound to other people when I put it that way! I adore the plants and always appreciate the generousity of other people - it is so unusual for someone not to have an alterior motive. I only hope I can pass along that kind of treatment to make other people happy. It was very sweet of you to send them and means ALOT to me when people who are pretty much strangers do something kind for me for no reason.
Please, no hard feelings, sometimes I don't think before I write, which is the same way I talk!!
If it will make you feel better, I do the same thing..............friends forever (LOL)...........just didn't want anyone to think I promised something and didn't send it for 4 months..............don't think about it again and thank you for explaining................
thanks...and if the "hoya bug" stays around to keep biting you, I would love to send you cuttings of one of my hoyas in return -
thanks.................not now...............but you may regret that..........i won't forget............in the meantime i am sending them out faster than i can pack.................
