Hoya in Hawai 2

I visited a couple of gardens belonging to Hoya lovers in the Hawaiian Islands this week, and thought I would post some pictures of the trip.
This first set is from Oahu. I visited Ted Green here, in Kaaawa ("kay-ah-ah-va", I think), on the windward (east) side of Oahu, about an hour from Honolulu, 45 minutes from Waikiki.
This first photo is of Hoya monetteae. This species was named for Ed Gilding's mother (I believe she was on the collecting trip when this was found). A really beautiful plant, it has giant (up to a foot long, 6 inches wide) leaves that are usually dark green and very thick, like leather from a motorcycle jacket. Ted's plant gets a lot of sun, and the leaves were more yellow. This plant was loaded with seven or eight huge clusters of white, fragrant flowers. They even smelled during the day.

This is Hoya siariae, from the Philippines. The leaves were beautiful, long, acute, bright red between the green veins.

Hoya glabra, with huge, intricately veined leaves.

Hoya aff. wibergiaea. The leaves are heavily splotched in silver, in sun the splotches turn pink. The flowers look a lot like those of H. pottsii.

Hoya mindorensis. One of the few Hoya with true red flowers. The clusters are fairly small, usually under 2 inches.

Mark...beautiful photos!!! That mindorensis is such a lovely plant!!!

Hoya endauensis, a small-leaved, slow-growing Hoya with heart-shaped leaves.

Thanks Carol. I do like mindorensis too. No scent, though! What's wrong with that Hoya?

This is Hoya kanyukumariana, another small-leaved Hoya. This plant of Ted's is HUGE. Sorry it is a bit out of focus, but still a thing of beauty.

And another beautiful sight on Oahu, though it isn't a Hoya.

I also visited Carol on the Big Island, I'll post some pictures as I continue to process the batches.

What does Leonards smell like????

Beautiful pictures Mark. Many more hoyas to add to my got to have it list. I keep thinking I am amassing a collection, but all I have are drops in a bucket. But I love my drops!
Kerri

Leonard's smells like cinnamon, sugar, haupia and heaven.

First on my list to visit next time in HNL!! We finished the Haupia Cheesecake last night - ym.

Loving your pics Mark - keep 'em coming !!

Glad you enjoyed your visit to Hawaii. Carol's 'garden'
is just a big happy Hoyaland isn't it !!! I could play
there for days.....^_^

Thanks for sharing those pics, Mark. Gorgeous pictures.

I'm really looking forward to the pictures from Carol's garden.

Gabi

Mark - beautiful plants and pics. I envy your trip! LOVE that monetteae - hope mine recovers and blooms like that!

Karen

Great photos! thanks for sharing.
Jan

Mark, Wow ... looks like you took a trip to Hoya Heaven! Beautiful photo's!

That red bloom of mindorensis is soo pretty! I really LOVE the H. siariae, both flower and foliage ... what a beauty! And, ooh, that glabra foliage, so huge, love the looks on that as well!

So many new ones I've never heard of! Look at that cute heart shaped foliage on endauensis, very nice, wonder what the blooms are like on that one?

I have one teeny little rooted stem of kanyukumariana and it is the cutest little thing too. I hope it grows and spreads - wow, that plant of Ted's is awesome!

Gee ... I guess I love them all! I just re-read all of my comments, so you can see if I had a choice of two or three it would be very hard to choose. ^_^ I guess I haven't seen a photo of a hoya yet that I didn't like! LOL.

Can't wait to see the pic's you took at Carol's place! More Hoya heaven!

Aaah ... Bakery - next best fragrance to that of Hoya's, huh? Which reminds me, the weather here is so yucky from Tropical Storm Hanna that I plan on staying inside and baking today! I have some bananas that are ripe enough for banana bread and I promised my husband I would bake him some chocolate chip cookies. And, I have fresh blueberries that I was thinking about making a cake my niece gave me a recipe for. Guess I should get busy! Have a great day everyone!

Yeah, bakery smells are a close second to Hoyas. How is the baking going, Lin?
For those not lucky enough to have had a Malasada, they are fried dough balls rolled in granulated sugar/ cinnamon, sometimes filled with haupia (coconut) or passionfruit cream. They are a Portuguese treat.
Leonard's also has great t-shirts and stuffed toys- although hair on a malasada (the girl plushies) is a little disturbing.
No, I don't own Leonard's stock, I just love malasadas.

Did you know that the Hawaii tourist board guaranties at least one rainbow per day to each visitor or your money back?

A street sign from the Kaimuki ("Ki-mu-kee") district of Oahu, the neighborhood where Hoya 'Kaimuki' was raised and named for.

Hoya 'Kaimuki', blooming in Ted Green's garden.
This is a cross of H. archboldiana and H. macgillivrayi, made, I think, by Ed Gilding. Carol, is that right?

Karen, I think you'll have no problem with H. monetteae. Another reason I now love this one is that when I got home from Hawaii one of the first things I noticed was that my H. monetteae had burst into growth and produced two 24" vines, with a few leaves starting. When I left, ten days ago, there was no new growth at all! The new vines are very thick and solid looking, the leaves are on their way to being huge already.
Got to love that.

Well, I didn't end up getting much baking done today! I did manage a pan of brownies but that's as far as I got in the kitchen! My DH will be happy with brownies though ... he is more of a chocoholic than I am and loves brownies! The cookies and bluberry cake will have to wait for another day. I don't bake as much as I used to a few years ago but sometimes I get going and can't stop, LOL. One year we flew to Denver with our basketball team from the college where my husband teaches and I had baked cookies for 5 days straight ... had shopping bags full of chocolate chip cookies for the team, coaches, trainers and parents, etc. One of the pilots heard the guys talking about cookies and said we couldn't take off until the cookies were on board! I used to be known as the Cookie Lady at the University, would bake for our Basketball team, my husbands students etc. Oh how times have changed. Now our players all eat healthy ... not so many sweets anymore and I have gotten older and don't bake as much. I still bake for family, friends and neighbors at the holidays though.

Oh my ... those are the cutest little stuffed babies ever! I think the hair is kinda cute on the girls! I just love those smiling faces and chubby little legs!

Now ... back to Hoyas! That kaimuki has to be one of the most gorgeous I've ever seen! What huge flowers that one has and what a beautiful color!

Love the shot of the pretty Rainbow too! Rainbows bring good luck!

Did you get a new camera, Mark ?.......That macgillivrayi cross is a lovely crisp shot

Dominic, no, that is actually my old camera (the Optio point and shoot). I took that photo on my last trip, but I wanted to include a shot of 'Kaimuki' since I posted the shot of the street sign.
That Optio was really great, I mourned the day the lens froze in mid-expansion.
The new camera (I think we talked about cameras a while back) is a Canon PowershotSD1100, which I took all of the other photos with. I like it a lot. It has really great digital zoom and macro features, which really expand the shooting range you have to work with. The digital zoom allow you to get within an inch of the subject in good lighting.

All your pics are beautiful Mark! Thank you for sharing them here.

This area is just outside Carol's front door. She has incorporated Hoya into her general planting scheme all over her property, but this area has the densest planting.
I don't recall all of the Hoya in this group- I think the reddish leafed one is H. camphorifolia, the yellowish, larger leafed one is Hoya meredithii. There is an Eriostemma section Hoya here as well, but I will leave it to Carol to ID them all.

Here is a close-up of the H. meredithii leaves.

A close-up of H. camphorifolia (?).

Carol really lives in Hoya Paradise! What a beautiful setting to have outside one's front door!

Wow, I Love that foliage on meredithii ... here I go looking up yet another!

Just behind this group, growing in shade, is H. monetteae (my new favorite). It has climbed all over the place, and has huge, dark green, fleshy leaves. The surface is very smooth, with no visible veins.
Don't be fooled by the photo, the leaves are huge.

See?

Mark: I sure hope you were able to bring or ship some of those beauties home to add to your collection!

I couldn't find meredithii in Plant Files ... someone needs to add some photo's! I found it for sale at Kartuz ... showing a pretty flower!

I like the looks and the colors of that camphorifolia foliage! That looks so great climbing that tree!

Now, I really loved the photo of the bloom of monetteae at the beginning of the thread ... and that foliage in the above photo is awesome ... almost resembles a philodendron in shape! I really, really like it! I can see why it would be a favorite!

Oh my goodness ... those leaves are HUGE! Do many Hoya's have foliage that large? That baby would really need some space!

Mark, great photos of Carol's hoyas in the jungle.
Lin, i just happened to have the photos of the hoyas with the huge leaves.
H meliflua.

H kenejiana.

H finlayson germany.

Oh my ... are there very many hoyas with huge leaves like that? Very cool! The only one I have that has large leaves is the one I got in the Spring DL co-op, H. magnifica but they are no where near as large as those in your pic's!