Growing conditions forum: Hoya polyneura in the wild ???
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| My fishtail is trying it's best to bloom.Trying to give it as close to it's natural condition's as i can I looked up the plant to find where it's from and what it's natural habitat is like.I found a H.polyneura 'silver leaves' is this plant from the Philippines also or is it a cultivar (i think is what they're called) like the compacta's not found growing wild. http://www.hoyor.net/en/showspecies.php?id=89#  This was the only pic i could find right now,it's on the bottom below the H.chelsea I asked for a flower and he gave me a garden,then grand-kids to work in it with me!!!! |
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| No idea. H. polyneura is a species hoya...but 'silver leaves' is simply a name a grower gave it to sound sexy. I GOOGLED origen of Hoya polyneura and it gave me a number of sites. It is from the Himalayas in India and that's why it likes cool weather. Leap. The net will appear. |
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Himalayas....  No wonder mine is not really growing much. I have it in relatively cool place of my yard but weather is too hot and humid these days here. Carol, I remember you said before that polyneura like it cool .But I bought it before I knew that. |
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Air conditioning maybe?  |
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| I made a mistake putting it was from the Philippines,i had looked at a few different plants and they were mostly from the Philippines except the H. polyneura which was Himalayas. The H.polyneura 'silver leaves' is different than the original plain green plant.So it's not found in the wild or it is like the H.carnosa kq & kp's.I still have a lot of research to do on how they are named and what's what about how to tell which are found in the wild and which aren't.I'm working on it.I found something you wrote about it carol and i'm planning on reading it today but my 2 grandboys are here so...  Have a wonderful day I asked for a flower and he gave me a garden,then grand-kids to work in it with me!!!! |
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| Hi Jelinda, I´ve red the green one is a clone that´s very common, and the silver one is the more original.... Look here: http://www.hoyor.net/en/showspecies.php?id=89 Hope I could help... Greets Daniel Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein |
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| Hoya polyneura = a species hoya. Species names are lower case. Only wild collected plants are called species. H. Ruthie (H. cv. Ruthie) = a cultivar. The species name is initial caps. Leap. The net will appear. |
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AlohaHoya wrote:Hoya polyneura = a species hoya. Species names are lower case. Only wild collected plants are called species. Exactly; species names should always be written in lower case. Cultivars should always be capitalized, and put in single quotes: H. 'Ruthie'. Using the "cv" is unneeded if this is observed. This is just how its done. I would really like to get my mits on H. polyneura 'Silver Leaves', but right now I'm battling spidermites on my polyneuras, and I don't want to add anything to the fray. |
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May i ask a question and i hope it's not going to be to annoying or stupid.  Trying to learn about correctly writing the names.Cultivar is a plant not found in the wild,such as H.Compacta should that be in single quotes or is it H. compacta 'Regalis' which is the correct way to write the plants that aren't "naturally" found.Also H.carnosa 'Chelsea' is that written correct? When looking up info. on the plants under place of origin it says "cultivar".It's not easy to find a lot of info. on chelsea.But she is a carnosa so i've just been going with the general info.i find on carnosa's. I know this a simple rule to follow but it gets confusing with some plants.  I asked for a flower and he gave me a garden,then grand-kids to work in it with me!!!! |
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| H. compacta is (I believe) considered a species hoya...therefore written with a lc "c". Your writing of H. compacta 'Regalis' is correct. Also H. carnosa 'Chelsea'. I thought that the cultiver could be just uc and/or the single quotes...hmmm. I stand corrected. Jelinda....cultivars are generally considered to require the same care as the parent plant...especially if they are sports or mutations from that species. Crosses, however, possibly take on the growing preferences of the parents or one or the other. Crosses are generally done across the same 'group' of hoyas like H. acutas (parasitica, verticilata, amoena etc.). I hope this helps. Leap. The net will appear. |
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| Sorry Jelinda, I don't know anything about the origin of 'Chelsea', except that is a relatively recent introduction. It should be the same in care as any other H. carnosa. Your questions are in no way stupid; in fact everyone has the same ones when they start getting interested in plant collecting. If you believe (as I do) that H. 'Compacta' is/are cultivar(s) and not a natural species, you would write the name as I have. With much love and affection, and the greatest respect, I differ with Carol on this question.  There is, or was, a cultivar of H. polyneura that was variegated called 'Broget', and there may be others. |
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Dave...I guess I should use "believe"...but it is my "understanding".... seems I've always seen it written as a species. I think it's a sport....  Leap. The net will appear. |
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| I wonder if this Silver leaves is the one I had several years ago called H. polyneura 'Broget' which was very temperamental for me to grow, most likely too hot.. If you google it you'll find several references... Here's a pic of mine on another forum... http://davesgarden.com/tools/journal/showimage.php?eid=24356... |
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| I received, a long time ago, two beautiful plants from a woman in Arizona who grew them in a large walk-in closet with huge skylights + airconditioning: H. polyneura and H. linearis. Go figger! Leap. The net will appear. |
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