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I have about 11 or so Hoya species, and a few that I cannot identify. As a biologist, it really bugs me when I do not know the exact name of something. Unfortunately I am trying to go from the leaf identification rather than from the flower (none yet). There are 2 different ones in the picture above.
LEFT---Can't tell if it is a Hoya curtisii ora Dischidia. Leaves are across from each other on the stem, about 2/3 inch wide with a point at the top-- leaves mottled with silver
RIGHT--cute leaves, mottled with brown/darker green. The leaves form on trailer stems, with smaller little leaves as they move down the trailer
I thought the left was H. curtisii. However, the one on the right is NOT string of hearts. I have one of those, and its leaves are indeed heart-shaped, but with blunt apex. This leaf on my Hoya? (or maybe a Dischidia?) has no identation at the top of the leaf where a heart has one, BUT it has a point at the bottom of the leaf. Very different.
Sorry, I was talking about the H. curtisii leaf shape. The guy on the right is perfectly round, no indentations or points. There are trailers with even smaller leaves going up the trailers. I looked at pics of species of Ceropegia and non fit. Those leaves are rather fleshy (like Hoya) and not thin/flat like my Ceropegia.
I bet it is some variety of Dischidia. It sure is pretty whatever it turns out to be. Check out this great Dischidia site and see if you can find a match:
Looked through all of the pics of Dischidia. How about Hoya serpens. VERY similar, but my leaves are mottled with brownish on green. AlohaHoya, you had a H. serpens on your website. How does it fit that one?
