I am so happy to have this plant back after having lost it. I want to thank my friend Naomi here in Vermont for making that possible. The flowers need to be seen in person to really appreciate them, and that goes double for the leaves!
The two peduncles of flowers on Hoya lithophytica have finally fully opened. Here is a picture from this morning:
After my wrongly identified Hoya desvoeuxensis turned out to be Hoya vitiensis Yellow, Julie Kennedy felt so bad that she secured for me the real H. desvoeuxensis and sent it to me this summer. The plant was small with only 2 or 3 leaves, but has grown pretty well in a few months and put on a peduncle which now has a single bud maturing. While it only has one bud this go around, I am still excited to flower it with the hopes that as the plant matures, I will have many more flowerings with multiple blooms.
I added this one into the mix just for the fun of it since they were all flowering at the same time.
After taking years to flower Hoya vitiensis Yellow, It has not flowered again on this plant for the second time. Here it is this morning hanging out with Hoya cutis-porcelana:
Like I’ve said before everything looks better when paired with Hoya sp. UT-247!
I forgot to note anywhere that Hoya fitchii has a truly beautiful scent! I just managed to not only get this one growing well again after the sulfur application, but it flowered as a bonus!
Now no one can say that these two peduncles of flowers don’t make a handsome pair!
These flowers are beautiful even if the leaves need a lot of scrubbing. I am finding that especially on pubescent leaves this sulfur residue is very difficult to remove. At least though the plant is back to growing after dealing with these $#@%! flat mites.
I am down to one Hoya lithophytica plant now and hope that it keeps doing well and that I never have to start it over again. Here are flowers from this week:
