Look how beautiful the backs of the flowers look with all of the magenta spots on this plant.

The wavy leaved original clone that has just flowered has much more color in the yellow/orange spectrum than the mostly ivory colored blooms of the smooth edged clone. It also appears that the coronal lobes are wider as well on the wavy edged clone.

I will be the first to admit that my plant looks terrible, but we will celebrate its opening of nine flowers over the next few days.

I am going to have much more on this plant when the peduncles that are full of buds open. These flowers are just sort of a teaser for now:

Not a plant for inside the house on the windowsill if you let it flower. Check out those nectar drips!

I have had to start this plant over a number of times, but I keep it around because I really like it. Here is a photo of the buds from this morning, which should open very soon.

Here is my candidate for the most beautiful bud of any Hoya that I have seen to date. My wavy leaved H. undulata buds taken this morning:

You don’t flower Hoya undulata every day, so you have to make the most of it while you can!

Now I know exactly how long it takes from bare peduncle to flower on Hoya undulata. When I checked the dates on the photos, here is what I got. I photographed the first batch of flowers on July 6th. The new batch of flowers opened on the same peduncle on August 12th. I got 6 blooms on both flowerings.

It looks like I will finally get this one out of my Hall of Shame!