I received Hoya nervosa as an unrooted cutting from Ric Morier way back in 2015 when you could still buy cuttings for less than $15. I rooted it the traditional way in moist potting mix and began growing it inside of a tent in my basement.
Hoya nervosa finally flowered on multiple peduncles after a very long wait of 6 long years. So we will take a few days to talk about my many travails in having it reach this point.
Dischidia Geri has some confusion around its name and its close relationship to D. oiantha. It is endemic to the Philippines and is supposed to be one of the easiest of all Dischidia to keep with a wide range of temperature extremes in which it will survive. I only kept this one briefly to flower it and moved on from there.
If you are looking for a fast growing foliage plant for a hanging basket, I can’t recommend Dischidia oiantha highly enough. While I grew the plain green version there is a very attractive variegated plant available as well. It grew well for me in sphagnum, but I believe that it would be equally at home in a chunky Hoya mix as well. Allow to fully dry before watering and it should give you years of pleasure.
The cutting that I purchased as D. oiantha has much more elongated leaves than D. geri so I would have to say that they appear to be different in my mind. See Photos below:
Dischidia oiantha
Dischidia geri
Dischidia oiantha has the typical very small flowers of the Dischidia genus, which are difficult to photograph well.
I find that with most Dischidia you can get away with growing them in nothing but sphagnum moss for a long time. Dischidia oiantha was no different and exploded in growth growing in sphagnum.
Dischidia oiantha is endemic to the Philippines where it was described by Rudolf Schlechter in 1904.
Looking around the other day, I noticed that there were a couple of Dischidia that I have kept over the years that never made it to this website so I thought that I would take the time now while it is relatively slow to remedy the situation. We will begin talking about Dischidia oiantha starting tomorrow.
I hope that September 2021 is a great one for everyone that reads this blog! Here is the final flower of Hoya undulata for 2021, and with the difficulty in growing this one, it could be the last photo for this species take by me ever!
