I had a viewer of my YouTube video of Hoya sp. AH-014 that told me the flowers on this plant look almost exactly like the flowers on Hoya sp. UT-036 West Timor, and after looking that plant up, it does greatly resemble it. The leaves are more spear shaped on UT-036, but other than that, it is almost a dead ringer for AH-014.
If Hoya kerrii and Hoya meliflua had a child, the flowers would look like the flowers on Hoya sp. AH-014.
This is a case where I believed that I had already discussed the flowers of Hoya sp. AH-014 here on this blog, but can find no record of it. I think what happened is that I made a YouTube video of the event and simply forgot to talk about it here. Anyway, I first brought you the plant showing the incredible long golden aerial roots that this Hoya produced and was waiting for the blooms. It has now flowered, but we will start with the buds:
I took this picture in the middle of December when we had only around 8 hours of day length and hardly any sun for the month. There is no rhyme, or reason for when Hoya curtisii will flower. It has now flowered, not all in the same year, in September, December, February, and April.
These will be the last new photos that you see of Hoya halconensis here on the site. I can’t seem to get this one to grow healthy any longer. It flowers, but the leaves look diseased; I’m tired of starting this one over and hoping that it will improve so into the trash it went!
These Archies don’t flower every day so I think that it is worth celebrating with one more day’s worth of photos!
I see here a Hoya Archboldiana ‘Jumbo Red.’ I’d have liked to see the hybridizer’s name attached. Is this a published cultivar or just a frivolous name that someone thought up to distinguish it from the white and pink clones? Due to Ted Green’s attaching the frivolous title of ‘YM-Excellent’ to the giant red one, in a manner that is supposed to indicate a cultivar, people appear to think it is a cultivar. Friends, that big red Hoya archboldiana IS the only one of those “Archies” that exactly matches C. Norman’s holotype specimen. It IS Hoya archboldianavar. archboldiana. The YM-Excellent does not belong there. I doubt that “Jumbo Red” belongs there, but I could be wrong about that. What the YM-Excellent means is that Ted Green bought it from an Australian collector, whose name was (maybe still is) York Meredith.
Christine Burton PS-The Hoyan Vol. 10, #1 June 1, 2010
This is an wonderful plant even if Ted Green did make up the name. Below my most recent photo:
Hoya lithophytica has been flowering pretty much non-stop all fall and now into winter. The plant is worth keeping happy with a little limestone, or oyster shell added, and a humid environment.
For some unknown reason, I have a harder time growing this plant than I used to. The leaves get yellow blemishes and I don’t really know how to get a healthy looking plant any longer. It is peculiar as this used to be an easy grower for me. I only keep it around because of these amazing flowers.
Hoya halconensis hasn’t flowered for me in some time. It has three peduncles currently with buds. The first to open had a single very large flower. It looks just like a furry starfish!
