And sometimes shape takes a wild turn. Photo of H. lacunosa ssp. pallidaflora...look how the leaves are changing...even on the same node!!!! So, were I to describe the leaves 'before' I would be totally wrong, eh? AND even the color has changed...or shifted....as well as the glabrousness.... I have no explanation...'cept it just happened.
That's amazing ... I would have never believed those two sets of flowers came from the same plant if you had taken them apart and posted two separate photo's! It's almost like the fertilizer (vitamins) decided to pick just one vein so to speak, take a turn and only track in one direction! LOL.
Wow! who would have thought that can happen to a same stem?
At first I thought possibly it had been crossed with another plant and maybe was reverting to the more dominant one, but I guess plants just have "minds" of their own sometimes. It's really neat looking and I will be curious to see what it looks like down the road ... if it grows more leaves that are different than the original.
Wow Carol, that's really cool!!
Gabi
Very atypical, perhaps some mutant genes at play.
There are NOT two photos there. The photo is of the vine where the new vine is starting WITH 2 different size leaves.
My guess is that, like humans, plants do have individual characterists....and that due to some growing condition the plant grew small leaves and then starts to revert to kind...with the longer leaves. i got a lacunosa from a friend in Thailand and all of the leaves are large like that. It is the type for that hoya.
Anyone remember the 'Heart Shaped' leaf hoya? Well...mine and Ted Greens plants both reverted to H. lacunosa ssp. lacunosa.... environment/nutrition.
That's really interesting, Carol! You just never know what kind of surprises await with these plants!
Speaking of that Heart leafed lacunosa, I have a small one that is reverting to regular leaves. Does nipping off the end of the vine with regular leaves ever help to get it to continue putting out heart shaped leaves?
It might....but then you won't have any growth and be stuck with a small plant because once it starts to revert...it will continue.
Well, pooh! That's no fun! :oP Thanks anyway!
Oh Carol, I didn't mean to sound like I was saying I thought you had posted a photo of two different plants to make it look like one. What I meant was if you had cut those leaves and laid them side by side and taken a photo and not told us it was all the same hoya, I would have just assumed it was two different ones. I don't know a thing about Hoyas except what I am learning here on this forum and I'm loving all the photo's and information some of you true hoya aficionado's are teaching us!
That plant is really cool. I guess, like some humans ... sometimes plants don't want to conform either, LOL They just want to do their own thing! ^_^
No worries. I just wanted to stress that it IS the same vine.
Have you considered that maybe it is just playing a joke on you? And in 36.4 days from today, the leaves will all grow to the size of the others.
Wow!
I'm interested to see how those leaves progresss...if they do at all!
I keep going back and looking at that picture because it is so neat! I love lacunosa anyway but it would be really cool to have an entire plant with the larger leaves and as well as one with two different sizes! Carol, is it as fragrant as other lacunosa's?
All of my lacunosas are fragrant...and I would imagine yours are too. The only lacunosa I know about with consistently small leaves is the clone from Lankawi Island.... I also believe that the larger leaves are the 'true' leaves.
The two lacunosa that I have are the Exotic Angel plants, one solid green leaf and the other is speckled leaf and they are very fragrant.
