Hoya sp. East of Thailand SRBR-JSNwf is flowering inside on the windowsill right now.  The scent is also amazing on this little known Hoya.

It simply will not stop flowering. Look at this handful of buds from this week, and to think that it took me nearly five years to achieve this!

It is hard for an old timer like me to adjust to all of these changes, but I just heard that Hoya pubicalyx has now been renamed Hoya pubicorolla.  So I guess I will have to roll with it.  Here is a photo taken this morning of the former Hoya pubicalyx Royal Hawaian Purple.  The colors on these can range from almost black to washed out red depending upon the conditions under which it is grown.  The top photo is of a pencil sketch feature done in photo processing software, which I think makes a nice effect.

Because of lack of space, I move a lot of Hoyas in and out of my life, but
Hoya isabelchanae is such a winner, I will be keeping this one in my collection for a long time to come. It is a plant that stays at a manageable size, blooms early and heavily, and is just a delight to have around. It is an
Acanthostemma type Hoya that has no scent, but makes up for its lack of fragrance in so many ways that it is a must have! Below Hoya isabelchanae in its entirety:

Here are a couple of macro photos of the flowers front and back on this outstanding plant:

After flowering Hoya isabelchanae the first time, it has been a regular bloomer ever since. It just flowered as I write this on two separate peduncles at the same time.

At around 4 months of age, I transplanted the plant in its 3 inch net pot into a 4 inch square plastic pot so as not to disturb the roots as set the Hoya back. It grew in my regular peat-based chunky mix and budded up and flowered for the first time at around 9 months old.

After about 3 weeks in the warm humid propagation box, my small plant started to show some good root growth. You have to essentially re-root these Thai plants as they are ripped out of their media, and all of the roots are completely dried out when the plant is received. The plant grew steadily in my downstairs grow-tent and developed a peduncle at about 9 months of age.

I received Hoya isabelchanae, then named Hoya sp. GPS 7-35, in May of 2018 as small bare rooted plant. I carefully transplanted it into a 3 inch net pot and put it into one of my homemade propagation boxes. Below the buds of the plant:

Hoya isabelchanae was named after Isabel Claire Chan Yuen Ching, late daughter of a Singaporean patron of botanical research and a gardener with an interest in Hoya.