Hi everyone. I am a Hoya addict! i recently rescued this sad little guy from a Walmart; can anyone tell me what type it is? Thanks in advance!
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Welcome to the forum!!
It's very hard, if not impossible to ID a hoya from a picture Morrigan; but the way the leaves grow it does look like a hoya, but the leaves themselves don't look like a hoya to me. That's as close as I can get! Hopefully someone else can spot something in your picture that I can't see.
Christine
ceedub: the leaves are very waxlike and I'd be surprised if it's not a Hoya, but thank you for the fast reply. Its stems also resemble the other Hoyas that I have. This thing was dying because its medium was soaked solid with water, so for 2.99 in a 12" pot, I took it home. I am a sucker, no pun intended! :-)))
Looks like a Lipstick plant which can easily be mistaken for a hoya! Really neat flowers regardless!
Check out this link and see what you think:
http://toptropicals.com/cgi-bin/garden_catalog/cat.cgi?number=5&op=OR&first=1&v1=shd
Kelly
I think you're right Kelly; I looked again and see that the the stems appear to be rather succulent for it to be a hoya. Most hoyas have very stiff, hard vines. The ones that don't (eriostemmas) are only available through specialized growers. But I could still have missed something. Is Carol or Mark around today? They'd know in a nanosecond.
C.
OH...you credit me with too much..!!! That was my first thought tho'...the lipstick plant...are the stems kinda fuzzy?????
If it IS NOT a hoya...it is a close relative if it is a lipstick plant....and very pretty when blooming!!!! Good rescue!
Carol
Looks like Aeschynanthus to me also. I grow a couple of the Lipstick Plants and some do resemble hoyas. Check out some of these in Plant Files: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/adv_search.php?searcher%5Bcommon%5D=&searcher%5Bfamily%5D=&searcher%5Bgenus%5D=aeschynanthus&searcher%5Bspecies%5D=&searcher%5Bcultivar%5D=&searcher%5Bhybridizer%5D=&searcher%5Bgrex%5D=&search_prefs%5Bblank_cultivar%5D=&search_prefs%5Bsort_by%5D=rating&images_prefs=both&Search=Search
You may be right guys, I was studying it from afar and saying in my head how beautiful when BAM - I thought of the lipstick plant. I am going to check the vines right now...yes, the stems are kind of fuzzy, but like a little less than a peach. I guess what fooled me was the size of the leaves! I have never seen a lipstick plant with leaves that big! Thanks, I am going to check out your links now...I will not begrudge the plant love and care because it did not turn out to be a hoya! BUT, I wish it had been :-) I have a stringbean hoya, serpens, australis, polyneura, the one w/ the BIG leaves that you can see all the veining, and the one you always save from the Stupidmarkets: white and green medium leaves, sorry, I am too stupid myself to know or remember ALL of their latin names!
Yep, I think that is correct, but as to which species, I guess I'll have to wait for the flowers! Thanks all!
The stupidmarket is the Hoya rubra or carnosa variegata; and I forgot to mention my h. Shooting Star.