Saw this species name on the tag at a nursery today. Wondered what folks think of it? $10 for a 6" pot with a decent size plant.
It was a small leaved plant.
Hoya pubera
Hard to tell....H. pubera is a name that has been put on a number of small leafed hoyas: H. bilobata for one. According to 'some' that in the trade is wrong...but at this point, who cares? The price seems right!!!! Do you have a photo? Is it from EA?
No, its not an EA plant. It appears to be a plant that is part of the nursery's stock. I did not take a picture as I was just looking around. Sorry. I just kept the name in my mind to inquire if it were a tough or easy plant.
How much do you guys trust EA names.
Me? About NOT! They are consistent, tho'....H. sulawesi is always really H. breviatata etc.!!!
Exactly what did that post mean? Or is someone having a moment?
"How much do you guys trust EA names?"
I answered, 'ME?' (assuming it was ok to answer even tho' I was not a guy)...and that I don't trust them at all. Also, they are consistent about their wrong labeling....if you see an EA label that says H. sp. Sulawesi it will be H. brevialata.
Perhaps it was a moment...dunno
Oh, cool. Gotcha. Maybe it was me having a moment at the moment. Nothing monumental, however momentous it was momentary.
I have found MOST EA plants to be mis-labeled, hoyas as well as other house plants. This past spring I was in one of our local Home Depot garden center's and found an EA plant with an incorrect label, began looking and many were mis-labeled. There was a lady working in the area so I mentioned that a lot of the hanging EA plants had incorrect labels. She was from the nursery that was in the process of delivering them and began inspecting all the labels and said she couldn't believe how many she was finding that were incorrect. I made the comment that sometimes folks walk around garden centers and pull the little thing out of the soil to read about the plant and sometimes may put it back in the wrong pot but she said no ... those had all just been taken off the truck so it was done at the nursery, and went about removing the little plastic name label's and said she would be letting someone at the nursery know. :) Yeah, right.
A few weeks ago I bought a hanging basket hoya with a label that says Hoya Bilobata and in small letters underneath hoya tsangii which is the same exact tag that came on one of my ds-70's. I think this one is probably also the ds-70. I saw an ivy plant that was interesting looking so I wanted to read the label ... it said philodendron it was a philodendron!%%?! But, I have also found some perennial plants mislabeled in the garden center too ... I just don't think the nurseries really care about the labels .... they grow them and ship them out and that's that. I don't know why they bother putting labels on them at all if they can't get it right.
I see that all the time myself. I always question the validity of the tags in the stores. Which is why I posted that question about differentiation between Hoyas and Aeschyanthus earlier this year. Oh, heck, one department store carries both unlabeled.
I know I have one Aeschynanthus that the foliage resembles the speckled leaf Hoya lacunosa. But the blooms of course are entirely different.
I bought a small plant of H pubera myself recently, but from a reputable grower whose labels are correct about 90% of the time. It doesn't look like anything else I have. I've been treating like the rest - bright light, drench to water it, and then don't water again until its dry. Its happy. I'll take a picture tonight and also compare it to my others to see if bears any similarities.
Christine