I gave one of my famous Hoya imperialis cuttings to Julie Kennedy from the UK a number of years ago. She has just produced the most amazing group of flowers with that plant which I have ever seen. Look at the coronas and the corolla tips. There are are flowers with 4,5,6, and 7 tips!!!! Thanks to Julie for the photo and allowing me to show it off here – just unbelievable!!
Photo courtesy of Julie Kennedy
I thought Hoya celata was white, but it is clearly not when compared against the snow white of Hoya bella White PES03.
Hoya celata on the left and Hoya bella White PES03 on the Right.
I am lucky enough to have both of these beautiful plants flowering at the same time so why not show them off together.
Hoya ‘Rebecca’ on the left and Hoya bella White PES03 on the right.
The plant opened her flowers in mid-December, just seven months after starting from cuttings. This is one of the faster bloomers in the Hoya world. For a plant that I cared little about when first ordered, it has turned into a favorite. I really can’t recommend this Hoya highly enough!
As the months passed and the daylight grew shorter, I noticed peduncles beginning to form in mid-November. Worried that there would not be enough light in the darkest month of the year to bring buds to term, I moved the plant into one of my grow-tents. Almost immediately the leaves began to take on the characteristic red color, and the buds began to form.
Moving from a 2 inch to a 3 inch net pot very quickly, Hoya ‘Rebecca’ soon needed transplanting again. The roots were so tangled in in the ‘net’ that I just sunk the entire thing, pot and all, into a 4 inch plastic pot. I then attached a hanger and hung it up in the regular house.
I started Hoya Rebecca as a cutting by rooting it in a small net pot. It grew very rapidly in my regular chunky mix, and needed transplanting within a couple of months.
I received a cutting of Hoya ‘Rebecca’ in May of this year (2018) from Ric Morier of Florida. It was a plant that I didn’t really care one way, or another about, but Ric was selling one really rare Hoya that I wanted, and the shipping is the same for one cutting, or six so I threw Rebecca in as a filler.
The flowers of Hoya ‘Rebecca’ are very small and sweetly scented.
The leaves of Hoya ‘Rebecca’ get a lovely reddish tone in good light.
