September blooms!!!

Oh my, that is such a pretty plant! I almost bought an EA basket of Dischidia once because it was so interesting looking. That is a really nice looking plant Barb! Teeny flowers are so cute. Does that take any sun?

I am so jealous of all of the beautiful plants and flowers being posted here. I wish I lived where it was MUCH warmer. Living in the frozen-north is not the most ideal place to live when trying to grow hoyas. (:o)
Mike
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LOVE the Dischidia!!!!!

If I lived in the frozen north, I would have to find a tall wooden post of some sort, maybe a long tree branch, plant that in a container of soil, plant a hoya at the base ... place it in front of the brightest window in the house and let er' climb!

Thanks,Lin. The Dischidia is on the screened porch (solid roof) and though the light is very bright, it receives no direct sun. I put it outside with morning sun when I first got it two years ago and nearly lost it. T'was a sad sight indeed. Next spring I plan to take part of it and mount it on a moss-wrapped section of grapevine. It will look like a living curtain (hopefully)!
Thanks, Carol!

Barb

Beautiful blooms, Barb. I love looking at all the blooms, and wishing mine would bloom. I think I'll have to start yelling at them. Talking doesn't seem to be working.

I was out watering this evening and found H. wayetti blooming

My pictures aren't the greatest. Wish I could blame it on the camera but alas, it's the person looking through the lens! I rarely get good pictures anyway but I've been having trouble with the vision in my left eye since yesterday so these aren't real clear.

Here's a close up of wayetti blooms

Finally one of my mys. hoyas from the Philippines has bloomed...and I LOVE it. Working on an ID - it is a great grower, the leaves are lovely...nice fragrance...

That's a beauty, Carol. Look forward to your finding the ID on it.

Barb

Love the foliage on that one Carol ... and those flowers are so cute. Now, I think I have heard someone talk about recurved petals or something. Is that considered recurved the way they kinda curve back? Isn't nice when you have one with lovely foliage, blooms and it's fragrant too!

Yes...recurved corollas are corollas (petals) that turn back. Recurved margins on a leaf are margins (edges) of leaves that just curve down a bit...

Thanks Carol!

Yes Carol, thanks for the lesson. I get confued with all the terms. I think of carona as the crown on the Queen's head, and carolla as the collar of her rob. It's silly, but it helps. Now need something to help me with glabrous and pubescent.

OK...here is what I use (and stop laughing!!!!). Pubescent=puberty (when young people begin to get body hair)...then glabrous can only mean the opposite. Eh?

Carol, what a neat tip. It's one I can remember. Thanks a bunch.

Absolutely wonderful hoya flowers this month everyone, I'm enjoying them very much.

My contribution is a new bloomer for me, H. sp Haraku. I got it in a trade 3 years ago from Sweden and it has grown like crazy. Each flower is 1/5" (0.5 cm) in diameter and the entire umbel is 1-1/2 wide.

Does anybody know if it has a real name yet?

Christine

Wow, that is a pretty bloom! What does the foliage look like on that one? LOL, I had to go google it. Only listed as Hoya H. sp. haraku. It looks like a nice one!

The leaves average 3-4" long and 1 to 1-1/4" wide, no speckling and a really nice shade of green. Here's the whole plant.

That is really one beautiful plant! Great Growing!

And here's a close up of the leaves. All in all its always been a favourite and I'm really pleased with the flowers. Funnily enough, two years ago I took a cutting and gave it to a friend who grows in semi-hydroponics. It bloomed for her late last year. Doesn't seem very fair to me .. lol...


Christine

I think I will move mine to Semihydroponics, Christine...thanks for the idea. Mine keeps getting rootrot!

Christine, I have a cutting of sp. haraku too, but no blooms. It looks like inconspicua:

http://www.myhoyas.com/Hoya%20inconspicua%20min.htm

I see some similarities, but the leaves are easily double the size in my sp haraku compared to my inconspicua - in fact I have only one large leaf on inconspicua and its the same size as the smallest leaf on sp haraku. So its a race to see which blooms first - your sp haraku or my inconspica, so we can each compare our plants side-by-side to see for sure. The race is on!!


Christine

Beautiful blooms everyone.
Speckled obovata, first time blooming.


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Close up.

Christine, I don't have inconspicua, the images I linked to were our Christina's, so it's up to you!
If you take a good macro photo of one flower of your plant, I may be able to compare it to some other images and at least rule some things out.
Take a look at the montage of H. wayetii, H. kentiana and H. sp. aff. angustifolia here:

http://www.stemmajournal.com/Photo_Gallery.php?aa=0&si0=156

Try taking a single flower off of your plant and taking a side view like the ones in the montage as close up as you can get.
M

Very cool. Of course this means that I'll have to read the manual for my camera finally and figure out how to properly use the macros .....


C

Wow! Everyone's hoyas and blooms are gorgeous!

Still blooming in September, Hoya carnosa 'Rubra'

OK...just downloaded the camera...IML 1198. The blooms only last about 1 day ... very fragrant...

This is the second blooming of H. sp. Kunming Kina this year....the rest of the plant has 9 budding umbels.

This is H. pusilla - fragrant and very much like H. lacunosa....

One of my favorites...sp. IML 1391.

New one for me....H. chuniana.

IML 0557 - really really red!!

Oh, I love the color of that IML 1198! Very nice! And, that H. chuniana has gorgeous foliage as well as the bloom! The IML 0557 is great too, nice foliage and I love that red bloom!

Lin, your 'Rubra' is beautiful. Lots of flowers. It must smell heavenly.
Carol, your pictures are pretty too. I especially like the chuniana. Love the leaves on it and the flowers are cute too.
My pentaphlebia bloomed again and I never got a chance to take a picture. The flowers only lasted 3 days. 'Pink Silver', carnosa, and the NOID carnosa are blooming again. Smells lovely outside in the evening. There is only one peduncle on each plant, but that's OK. They are still young. Hopefully next year there will be more.

Imadigger: :( I have a few of the rubra's and have never detected even the slightest fragrance on any of them. I asked my husband to smell them and he couldn't detect fragrance either. I wonder why mine are not fragrant? I have heard others say that Rubra/Krimson Princess smells good.

Lin, mine are like yours.... nada. None of the carnosas, for that matter, have even the slightest detectable fragrance. Weird, eh? :(

Barb

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