New to hoyas and have a few but I saw this noid at Home Depot today and just had to have it. Hoping someone can id it for me.
TIA
Hoya id please
I want to say H. Kentiana "wayetti"
Thank you threegardeners I think that is it :)
You will love this plant! Mine grew flowers like an annual last year; many times it had a dozen or more peduncles all open at once. Also, seems to be one of the easier to care for Hoyas. You have to hand it to Exotic Angel for choosing this one for their mass production.
Doug
One more photo of Hoya Kentiana "wayetti" from 2008 in full bloom.
WOW! Doug, that is one super happy plant!! Good growin'.
Barb
Beautiful plant Doug!! I can't wait for mine to bloom, what does it smell like?
Thanks Barb. That is what I strive for with all of my plants, but most of the time with these Hoyas I seem to fail miserably, but at least I keep on trying!
Doug
Three Gardeners, believe it or not I can't remember what it smells like, but it drips an unbelieveable amound of nector. It also was a death trap for wasps. The nector drew in dozens of them; they would lap up the nector and be dead within hours. I think it was the BATS that I treated the plant with a month or so earlier that killed them.
Doug
Thank you Doug that is beautiful
One of my favorite Hoya's as well! I find this one very easy ... it seems to just do it's thing and all I have to do is it water once (or depending on time of year) twice a week with the garden hose! I am very bad about fertilizing any of my plants and this one just blooms it's little head off all summer long.
I was confused about this one at first. Someone ID'd it as Hoya kentiana but then someone else said it wasn't kentiana but rather wayetti because of the dark brown leaf edges. It seems to me when I first got this one it was solid green and the dark edges didn't show up until it was in more sunlight? So, is the proper name H. kentiana "wayetti"?
This picture was from October when it still had one bloom cluster.
Lin...according to those who are supposed to know:? Take your pick. I call it H. weyettii. Some say there is a difference...others say they are the same. I don't know.
Edited to say that: Doug...that is interesting information about the bees eating the nectar and then dying. That chemical is commercially allowed to be used by commercial fruit orchards because the flower/fruit is supposed to not carry it. I have had lizards who drink the nectar... Do you really think that is what happened? Wow...I don't doubt you, but you should warn someone!!!
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The US in particular has a big problem with lack of bees, dosent it? I read they have portable bee farms they have to now move around the country to pollinate areas for fruit, then they move them to the next location?
Carol,
I know it is antedotal evidence, but all I can say is that every day I would have to sweep out 10 or more dead or dying wasps out of the greenhouse. They would be attracted to and feed for hours on the nectar of that H. wayetti. If it wasn't the Bayer Advanced Tree and Shrub that killed them, I have no idea what it could have been. I use no other pesticide.
Doug
I thought that was more of a virus/killer bees invading and taking away their territory problem than use of pesticides?
It is a mite, the Varroa Mite, that is killing off populations of feral bees, and then the mites get into the cultivated hives. It has just shown up here on Hawaii Island. Tragic!!!
Yes, the Varroa Mites .... first found here in Florida in 1987: http://www.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/ef608.asp
Major problem in many other areas as well: http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/misc/bees/varroa_mite.htm