Hoya buntokensis flowers every two months or so. It is usually low on the plant which does not lend itself to a very good photos. I see that the breeders and growers in Thailand have just come out with a variegated or splash version of this plant, which is selling for well over $1,000. I will stick with the original version! Note the white spots on this plant are sulfur splash, which was achieved for free!
There are many different flower color clones of Hoya hanhiae; Yellow/Pink is my favorite. It is currently flowering in a basement grow tent.
I recently up-potted Hoya danumensis, between that and spraying the plant with sulfur, it seems to have helped it bring its buds to term. In the past, I have had almost constant bud drop.
I hope to bring this plant back in the future when I have had the chance to grow it for more than a few months. Right now I would have to rank it pretty high for both its beauty as a foliage plant and its ability to flower quickly right out of the gate!
These plants just happened to be flowering at the same time:
I can find very little online on the origins of this plant; the best I can come up with is that it hails from Rangsang, Indonesia. There is a movement right now in the Hoya world to lump many previously separate species into single species with different clones dependent on locations and the like. I suspect that Hoya sp. Rangsan will be lumped in with Hoya latifolia. The flowers are identical to the flowers of macrophylla and polystachya, which are now all called Hoya latifolia.
Hoya sp. Rangsan is primarily grown for its splashy leaves. My leaves would look a lot nicer if I hadn’t sprayed the entire plant with sulfur as a preventative against the dreaded flat mite!
Hoya sp. Rangsan flowered for the first time only four months after starting it from a cutting. So if you are looking for a quick bloomer this one would definitely fit the bill!
The cutting rooted very quickly in coconut husk with a little perlite thrown in, which right now is my medium of choice. I rooted it in June and it grew well from the start.
Hoya sp. Rangsan came to me as a nice cutting from my friend Robert Beckman. It has been in the trade for a few years now, but was not really on my radar.
