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Hoya id?

Posted by majorrichler 5a (My Page) on
Thu, Apr 30, 09 at 14:42

I found this at a local store that usually only stocks common carnosa varieties. It struck me as something different. There were about a dozen pots and all plants had lighter green leaves with darker green veins. Also, each pot and one or two very large leaves. These large leaves are bigger than any carnosa leaf I've ever seen. The larger leaves are much thinner than large, well established carnosa leaves.

Could this be something other than carnosa?

I apologise for the low quality of the photographs. We used a camera phone.

mjr r

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Mjr that is just the standard green form of Hoya carnosa. The size of the leaf is dependent on light, the lower the light the larger the leaves will grow and the darker green they will be to help maximize photosynthesis. My carnosa has a variety of different sized leaves with the older ones being much larger and thinner because the person I got it from had grown it in a very shady location. I think that the cuttings used to grow those plants were from a shade grown plant and that the new growth will look more like what you are used to seeing with Hoya carnosa.

Mike


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I agree, it's regular Carnosa, which can have quite variable leaves. Some more or less round, some w/ more or less pronounced veining. I've had a couple of scruffy no-IDs from nowhere special that look like that. Sorry, it's common, but still a nice plant.


 
 

 

 


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