Hoya odorata/H. cembra. Ted Green tells me it is not H. cembra.... Blooms all year and has a devine fragrance.
September blooms!!!
H. sp. Kapit IML 1029 AD 10. Love the leaves....and the flowers are nice...but only last about 24 hours.
H. cv. Sunrise...growing in high light, early morning sun.
H. meliflua
H. samoensis.
Carol, those are some really awesome blooms! Wow! It must be like heaven living in the paradise of Hawaii. What is the coolest temp's y'all get at night in the winter time?
I am really loving that H. affinis! Gorgeous bloom and I like the leaves on it too. And ... I also really love the soft colors in cv. sunrise, whoever named that one, it really fits! I like the looks of the H. odorata/cembra too. Oh ... I just love them all.
One of my cuttings from the spring DL order is H. cagayanensis. It's gonna be a long time before this one grows enough to bloom! This is the cutting that I really didn't think was going to make it. All the leaves were off the stem upon arrival and most of the stem was totally dead. But, what was left did take root and now it has two leaves! So, I still have hopes for it.
Yes, it is a slow beginner!!!
Actually, I named cv. Sunrise.... LOL I sent in the publication material along with other material to the Smithsonian Herbarium (just like christin Burton told me too, dried and mounted specimins etc.)and it got lost! because that Herbarium no longer takes cultivars and hasn't for a long time. Oh well. It stuck. It was published in Asclepios.
In the winter we can get down to 57...the coldest I have seen. Last night it was 59. Wonder what this winter will be like??? Great sleeping!!!
As usual, beautiful flowers Carol!!! The H. bicolor blooms look a lot like incrassata blooms, yes?....do samoensis and cv Sunrise have a scent? And finally let me just say this about the H. meliflua blooms----ewwwwwwwwww!!! Not a big fan of gooey, oozy, drippy stuff....
I haven't contributed to this thread because I don't have a camera (sniff) and I know it's no fun not to see the photos...but I would like to report that my H. cv Minibelle just finished blooming---three umbels open at once, a very nice kind of dusty, mauve-y pink color and a nice spicy scent....somehow I thought they'd smell like a carnosa, but they don't...I also wondered how they got that color...carnosa is usually very pale pink to white, and shepherdii is white...so I don't know where the fairly deep lavender pink came from....anyway, it's a very nice hoya, neat and compact, shiny leaves, very pretty flowers...seems like it's a little underrated since you don't hear much about it...:)
Oh, how cool ... I had no idea you named it! Perfect name as it does look like the colors of a beautiful sunrise!
Aaah ... 59 degrees sounds good! At 1:30 this morning it was still 82 here ... so hot and humid, day and night! I would love some Autumn weather which I'm sure a lot of folks are getting ready for real soon.
I have this noid blooming right now. The one to the right of krimson princess.
A close up of the blooms:
One of the lacunosa blooming:
oops .. wrong photo, that is a lipstick plant with a krimson princess bloom to the left.
Here's the lacunosa:
Nice plants...your nOID looks like H. carnosa....could it be?
LOL, Carol ... I have no idea. I've had a krimson princess for 30 years and I thought it was all the same plant and that part of it reverted to solid green foliage! I'm sure it was just another hoya mixed in with the kp. I separated them years ago and potted each into those coco fiber liners in wrought iron hanging baskets. I just recently repotted them into plastic planters with trellises because the coco fiber stuff disintegrates after a few years and I got tired of untwining them and repotting so often.
I cropped the photo and zoomed so you can see the foliage better. Can you tell if it is carnosa? The blooms have no fragrance whatsoever, at least I don't detect any.
Lin-
Your setup is beautiful! Is that outside or inside? Love the trellises on your noid and carnosa!
Kelly
Not a bloom but I wanted to share, I moved some of mine around and hung a carnosa up near my humming bird feeder. I watched a hummer sip on the nectar on the blooms of it. It never even crossed my mind that they would drink that. Gonna keep that in mind next summer when they're blooming.
Lyn...I am pretty sure that is a H. carnosa!
Kelly, thank you! That is my outside Pool Deck ... home to my many plants!
The trellises are old 8' aluminum porch railings ... I found two of them in the shed and had my DH cut them each in half so it gave me four great trellises for my plants! I guess I can't yell at him anymore for being a packrat and saving stuff that he is sure he "might" find a use for some day! ^_^ Those things were removed from our back porch 30 years ago when we had the pool put in!
Thank you Carol, it is great to finally have a correct ID on that one!
Carol, the meliflua blooms look so cool, like some kind of glass buttons.
Onychoides finally started opening- boy the flowers are huge. I haven't taken one off to photograph yet, but when I do I am sure the flower, when pressed flat, will be well over 3 inches wide.
Smells like tootsie-rolls so far.
Mark, I have that one. What conditions do you grow yours in? It is just a cutting right now(with new growth) and I have had it out side in my screened in porch. I will be needing to bring it in in the near future for winter.
Thanks
Dawn
Whats a 'tootsie roll', Mark?.Im presuming its nothing to do with Dustin Hoffman? We dont have them here
When my onychoides bloom it smells like Gardenia, but not as strong.
/Christina
That Onychoides is really nice! I am really loving these hoyas with the huge blooms! And, if that one smells like tootsie roll chocolate or gardenia's that would be fine with me, both different, but still great fragrances! I have 2 huge Gardenia Bushes in the yard that give hundreds of blooms every year and scent the neighborhood so it would be kinda nice to have a few blooms that smell like tootsie rolls... although I have a friend who loves that candy and she might be wanting to eat the flowers!
I was out watering early this morning and look what I found "blooming" amongst the hoyas. I will have to check closely to see if he is the dratted invasive cuban tree frog, if so he will unfortunately have to be euthanized. :( I'm hoping he's a good guy and can stay around.
He's cute, Lin. Here's a page that might help you determine if he is a goodie or a baddie: http://www.wec.ufl.edu/extension/wildlife_info/frogstoads/osteopilus_septentrionalis.php Aside from grabbing him and checking to see if the skin on top of his head moves, I guess the large toe pads are the easiest way to ID the bad guy. Your Hoyas look great! What is the narrow-leafed one to the left of the frog?
Barb
Lin,
I haven't been on the board for a few days (just had new floors put in - yay!), but upon first glance of your NOID, I thought it looked like H. carnosa KP that had reverted back to green. I could be wrong, but half my plant is starting to look that that (which I don't mind), and it looks exactly the same. Either way, you know it's definitely a carnosa. Gorgeous hoya, by the way!
Carol,
LOVE your blooms! And great pics.
Gabi
Barb,
We've had the cuban tree frogs here in the past and all of a sudden all the regular little green tree frogs and anole lizards and other toads were missing! I'm sure the cuban tree frog who took up residence in our pool area a few years ago had something to do with that ... a smorgasbord of sorts for him and his family! So, yeah ... I do need to check and see if this guy is one of the baddies! We now have the little lizards back all over the place and I like them so if this frog is a baddie ... in the freezer he goes for sure!
Here's a pic from a couple of years ago of one of them that took up residence in a bird house out on the deck! He would sleep in the b'house during the day and come out in the evenings and at night.
Gabi: Congrats on the new floors! Lucky you! I would like to have a new house, floors included LOL.
Oh, I am so glad to hear that your KP is doing the same thing. I thought it was maybe my old age and old eyes deceiving me with that plant! I know for years I never saw a solid green vine in that basket! So, maybe it did revert back to solid green. I have had other plants revert, one huge Hibiscus in the yard that I planted back in the 1970's ... it was a beautiful variegated foliage with pale and dark pink striped blooms. First the flowers reverted to a reddish orange color, now the foliage is reverting back to a solid green. :( I really preferred that plant the old way but someone told me once that many plants will revert back to whatever parent was the dominant one or something like that.
... Gotta run - I just looked out the window and see a Hawk flying low out front and I want to chase it away from a mocking bird nest!
Dominic, tootsie-rolls are an American candy, little tubes that are artifically flavored of chocolate, but somehow still really tasty.
Christina, I was expecting a gardenia scent too- I have smelled archboldiana, which does have sort of that smell, and thought this would be similar, but so far no. Maybe tonight when more flowers are fully open it will smell different.
:( Checked the nest ... nothing, zilch, empty! I guess a predator must have gotten the eggs. A few months ago there were 3 baby mockers in the nest and two went missing. I chased away a pair of swallow tailed kites one day. A few days later found a half dead baby under another tree ... something had got it but apparently dropped it. We tried putting it back in the nest a few times but it flew and fell to the ground a few feet away every time. My DH finally put the little guy in some heavy bushes. The parent birds were nearby so hopefully the baby survived. I know ... it's all a part of nature. The Mockingbirds and Blue Jays are out there right now going after that hawk! We have had lots of hawks around this year but I'm sure it's because there have been lots of birds nesting and raising young.
Barb: Sorry I forgot to respond to your question. The hoya to the left of the frog is H. acuta ... I got a cutting in the Spring DL order. It seems to be doing real well so that makes me happy!
Everything you ever wanted to know about Tootsie Roll candy: http://www.tootsie.com/products.php?pid=165
They are apparently even making them in sugar free ... had no idea! I'm sure they don't taste the same though without the sugar! Artificially sweetened tootsie rolls just don't sound right!
Thanks, Lin! :)
Ok folks ... off topic of blooms but I just had to show this. I am always sticking bits and pieces of plants down into my terrarium and happened to be digging around in there today and look what I found ... this little Hoya with two peduncles! Can't remember which hoya it is, maybe nummularioides, as that one was dying so I started cutting it up and sticking a few pieces here and there ... some in water, some in fresh soil, some in straight perlite in a zip lok bag, just to see if it could be saved. Can't wait for this little thing to bloom so I can find out for sure which one it is!
It's the one in the upper left corner in this picture ... can you see the little peduncle?
Here's the other end of the vine with another.
More shots of onychoides.
Dawn, I have read a couple of times that onychoides and its close relatives like to grow up into full sun, so i give mine bright light. It sits in a south facing window, so is bright all the time but gets more direct sun in the winter. This may help the plant think it is in its native haunt (in the southern hemisphere), as it and a lot of other New Guinean/Australian species bloom here in the fall, as Australia is entering its spring.
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theyre wonderful the way they open up...Clever thing, nature
What beautiful blooms, Mark ... great photography too! Most of the time photo's, no matter how great still don't do justice to the actual beauty of the plant ... well, your pictures show the beauty of that one!
I really think some of these photo's on the hoya forum could be matted, framed and marketed ... they are really good.
Mark, gorgeous flowers & the photos.
Jan