This is a picture of parts of a plant that my aunt got from my grandmother over twenty years ago. The plant is now over 50 years old and no one knows where she got it or what the plant is. The flowers appear in a cluster of 17 identical thick, waxy, five-pointed small pink things as shown in this picture. The leaves are about 2-1/2 long and thick, dark green, shiny pointed oval in shape with thin veins. The plant is a vine that is now over sixty feet long, wrapped around bamboo sticks in the earth-filled pot. I didn't have my camera with me so I brought a little of the flower/plant home to take the picture.
THANK YOU for your help.
I am not able to post the pictures - I don't have a URL, but I can E-mail them to anyone with time and interest. Please contact me at ogormandm@juno.com.
It Hoya purpureo-fusca & not H.carnosa. Cnosa has white flowers. I have this creeper, cmonly called as Wax creeper. Flwers amost all year roundin profusion. Flowersstay fresh for week& give fragranceat night. hen the flowersdrop down, the flowerstalk remains intact, gives successiceclusters at least 10-15 ties more. It grow better as an epiphyte. I have grown it on Coconut husk with skin intact. I have H. australis too. It has white fragrant flowers. The leaves re very glossy & are roundish. Bothe the varieties an be propagated with stem cuttings. Even single nde cuttings too make new plants. Most ideal climber for semi shade. I tried to attach a photo of my plant, but I am not sure how to do it. Please help, I can send the photos of boththe species.
yes that looks like a Hoya but with just one flower bud .. but looks like ya got a start :)
dont cut off the spur that that lonely lil bud is sitting on .. you will get more on it again ..
THANK YOU for you for your quick and informative responses to my question. I called my Mom with the answer to the puzzle and she is thrilled to receive the information. She remembered hearing her Mom calling it that but had never payed much attention to the plants.
I am going to do a little research on the plant and then try to propagate it with a cutting. I need to read up on doing that, because this is my first foray into things botanical!! Wish me success. :)
THANK YOU for you for your quick and informative responses to my question. I called my Mom with the answer to the puzzle and she is thrilled to receive the information. She remembered hearing her Mom calling it that but had never payed much attention to the plants.
I am going to do a little research on the plant and then try to propagate it with a cutting. I need to read up on doing that, because this is my first foray into things botanical!! Wish me success. :)
Update: I searched a number of web sites that dealt with hoya and finally found a picture that matches mine. It was a picture of the bud for a hoya compacta "rubra", but the leaves aren't an exact match - they were variegated.. And the leaves for a hoya compacta "mauna loa", whose bud is very similar, maybe identical, are more like those of a jade plant, not thin like mine.
Any other inputs on the correct identification of my plant would be appreciated. Thank you.
that is just so weird that you have one lil flower on it .. usually they are in big clusters .. but you are lucky .. :)
i would get it planted soon .. i wouldnt leave it on that plastic tube .. and dont plant it in a big pot .. keep it small
good luck with it ..
