Does this one look familiar to anyone?

Another one of those Exotic Angel plants! I was at Lowe's today and had a $10 off house plant coupon so bought this basket. I would never pay $14.95 for an EA plant but since I had the coupon I figured for 5 bucks I would go ahead and get it! At first I thought it was Aeschynanthus (Lipstick Plant) but it does have the white sap when a leaf is broken and I don't think the Lipstick Plant has that white sap stuff.


All the label says is: " Hoya Var. Waxleaf"!??! Botanically I am known as Hoya sp.

I have no idea which one it could be. All the label says is: "Hoya Var. Waxleaf" and Botanically I am known as Hoya sp. Here's the photo at the EA website of this plant: http://66.83.181.250/HEG/Varieties/ShowProductDetails.aspx?productid=127


and this isn't the clearest photo but here's the plant I bought: It does have a little variegation in the leaves.

What you have there appears to be one of EA's speckeld leaf H. lacunosa plants.

I have a plant about the same size as yours that is currently loaded with peduncles.

Thank You! I thought the leaves looked like my lacunosa but I had no idea there was a speckled leaf version! If this one has the fragrance of my other two lacunosa I will be thrilled. I have one small basket of the regular version that has been blooming for a few weeks .... every evening the entire house smells wonderful from that fragrance!

I haven't checked this one thoroughly yet for any peduncles ... I need to repot it, my first priority for tomorrow morning! Right now I have it out of the pot, with the soil wrapped in lots of paper towels, sitting on newspaper! It is soaking wet but that's nothing new for Lowe's, their plants are always in a very heavy soil and floating in water! On the other side, every Home Depot garden center here in town, the plants are always desert dry!

Thanks for such a quick response Dmichael! I really appreciate it! Hopefully I will be able to keep my $5 speckled leaf lacunosa alive!

Lin

I've been looking for a basket of EA brevialata / incurvula for months now and just happened to walk up on one at wal-mart of all places today so I bought it!!!!! It was priced at $11.99 which is about $5 less than lowes or home depot for the 8" baskets.

I have two EA brevialata that I got at Wal-Mart last year. I think I put a pic in plant files recently, I need to go look. I've been meaning to upload a photo of my H. nummularioides, too and keep forgetting.

I received one of those lacunosas.... The first one I had has been SOOOOOooooooooo hard to grow/root...but this second one I have left alone, I haven't repotted it and I have NEVER watered it.... 3 or 4 months now....and it does beautifully!!!!

Mark Randall and friends were here visiting....found my big H. curtisii with about 20 forming umbels...which will bloom when I am gone!!!! Darn!!!! Will get DH to take photos....

That EA lacunosa is one of the BEST!!!!

I ended up taking that speckled leaf lacunosa apart this morning. It was still sopping wet! I took the hose and rinsed all of the heavy soil away and repotted into a few different pots. Some went back into the original 8" basket, but I got three little @ 2" pots of rooted cuttings too. I am going to let it dry out and hopefully it will do as well for me as the regular lacunosa.

I have H. curtisii that I bought about a year ago and it is not a happy hoya! Yellowing and dying foliage and not looking good. Can't wait to see pic's of yours Carol! Do the blooms not last very long or are you going to be away for awhile? I hope your DH will take some photo's of it while in bloom! Maybe you can post them when you get home. I don't think I've seen pic's of curtisii blossoms before, will have to go check PF and see if there are any pic's of the flowers!

Lin, put your H. curtisii in very bright indirect light and don't let it go dry. I killed 2 large baskets of it before finding out what it really liked . The plant I have now is growing like wild!!!!

dmichael

Thanks dmichael ... I will try that in hopes of saving my pitiful plant!

When you look at your H. curtisii....check the roots or the stems going into the soil. ... you may have a root problem, too.

What kind of root problem? Do you mean insects? I'm going to unpot it tomorrow and check out the roots and sterilize the pot and repot it in fresh mix. I've been keeping it very dry (maybe too dry) and it's been in heavy shade on my deck ... I'm thinking maybe it hasn't gotten enough bright light. Hopefully I can save it.

Root problem = anything bad. I suspect rotten roots. Often when they dry out too much, they get rewet and since they are dead they rot, and the rot spreads up to the whole root.

Nice score Lin -Beautiful plant!

Lin, I just learn everyday from DG. I have that plant and had no idea what it was. I am going to make a basket of it out of 4" pots when I get home. Good going on your find!