The foliage of Hoya paulshirleyi Seedling are pretty typical of many Philippine Hoyas.

I thought that it would be interesting to compare the two flowers side by side. Hoya paulshirleyi Seedling on the left and Hoya paulshirleyi on the right. It is interesting to note that besides the corolla and corona being different colors the shape of the corona is different as well.

All of these Hoyas that went out as H. GN-01 should now be called a Hoya paulshirleyi seedling. While they may look and behave identically to Hoya Paula, they cannot be called such as the only plant that maybe called Hoya Paula are the vegetative cuttings that come from that original named plant.

Ordinarily when creating a cultivar, the proper procedure is to document what you did to created the hybrid. The seedlings should be grown out and the the one that shows the greatest vigor and desirable traits is kept, and all of the other seedlings are culled. The plant that is chosen is then named and generally registered with the proper international society. Apparently this society does not exist for Hoyas strangely enough. Please correct me if I am wrong here, but according to the information that I found online there is no international cultivar registration authority for Hoyas.

The plant that is registered and named then becomes the plant which is propagated from cuttings and only that plant can be considered the named cultivar.

After sending out all of these seedlings from the Hoya paulshirleyi seedling cross, the owner of Gardino Nursery decided that they wanted to have a named cultivar and chose one of these seedlings and named it Paula after their daughter. Being new to the cultivar game, they did not understand the proper procedure for creating a name cultivar. Tomorrow I will go into how this is usually handled.

My well rooted cutting made steady progress and flowered in late December of 2021 and I was so excited to research H. GN-01 to find out more about it. Here is what I found out. This seedling was a suspected cross between H. paulshirleyi (mother) and H. albida (father). This was a natural cross that happened at Gardino Nursery in Florida, and the owners of the nursery made a mistake and grew and sold or gave away many plants grown from this seed and labeled all of them Hoya GN-01. More tomorrow…

I can’t put it off any longer as the plant has flowered and I will begin with the history of the plant. I received a cutting of it in June of 2021 with the tag Hoya GN-01. It rooted right off in coconut husk and seemed to like this medium quite a bit. I transplanted it into a bigger cut after a couple of months and it never faltered.

This Hoya has not been out of flower or bud now for many months. Here is a photo from this morning.

I had to start this one over again last summer as I lost the roots to cold and wet. This time I am growing it as a modified hanging plant in my hanging wire trellis. All photos from this morning.

Good old Hoya mirabilis! She keeps on doing her thing even though I pay very little attention to it any longer.