Hey there Kelly !! ;) I know I have some pics around here of my multiflora, I'll just have to find it. I know there is something else out there, don't remember the name at the moment -- but it looks almost exactly like my multiflora shape wise except the flowers are extrememly reflexed and instead of yellow there green. I fell in love with it when I first saw it but I don't know where to even begin looking to get one.
-Nicole-

Cyrtoceras floribundum was a name you would see now and then but it is now synonymous with Hoya multiflora. The other similar species is Hoya javanica. I think that any other differences such as flower colour and leaf size and shape are just variations within these two species.

Mike

Thank you both! Nicole, I just a picture of the green flowered one and now I don't remember what site it was - maybe Flickr?!?! Will have to look again tonight! It was gorgeous!

On the www.growinghoyas.com site some look more orange than others and the corollas look thicker.

Kelly

Nicole,
Hope your week starts to look up!

Congrats on the multiflora, Kelly.
Sande

Kelly,

I got my EA javanica (which was tagged multiflora) in March '07. From that article, it's obvious they aren't offering it anymore because they felt it's not so practical as a hanging plant. I'd have to agree - mine takes up SO much room, I'm thinking about whacking it up, re-rooting and growing in a more upright position. Problem is, it never stops blooming, and when it's putting it's energy into flowers, it's hard to get them to root...

Anyway, it's my understanding that a lot of the so-called multifloras out there are actaully javanica. If you search this forum using "javanica" you'll come up with Gabi's posting about the differences. I see, however, that the flower photos have been moved. That's how I determined that mine is javanica and not multiflora. Is Gabi out there to re-post those photos??

Denise in Omaha

Denise I was also looking for those photos that David Liddle had but the site has been taken down. It was very easy to see the difference between species when looking at those photos.

Mike

The montage of multiflora, javanica and cyrtoceras floribundum is on the Stemma Journal website in the
hoya photo gallery.
There are 3 different ones, and from what I remember, the majority floating around are actually Cyrtoceras floribundum.

Thanks paulahawaii, still confused that in other places Crytoceras floribumdum is listed as synonymous with Hoya multiflora when there is such an obvious difference in the flowers when viewed together.

Mike

Here is a link that might be useful: {{gwi:941577}}

Thank you! Would still love to see pictures of other members flowers and know from where they received theirs to get an idea of which ones vendors are carrying as my guess is many are mislabelled!

Thanks again for the help!
Kelly

This is my muyltiflora. I've had for a couple years now. I got it from a local nursery and it didn't say where it came from but it wasn't EA.
I don't think I've ever seen one offered as javanica, for some reason most people call them multiflora.
I've seen the pictures of the differant ones and I still can't tell which one I have.

I've found with this one it's a bit harder to root probally because of the woody stem. I pot cuttings up and place in a plastic bag and mist.
I even had one I tried in the fall that didn't root untill spring.
I recantly got a cutting of the variegated form and I'm going to grow it upright and see how it does.
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KS-Girl yours looks just like mine and is listed in the photo montage as aff. Crytoceras floribumdum. If you look at the corona lobes they are all completly different, Hoya multiflora's point down while Hoya javanica and Crytoceras floribumdum's point out at different angles. Hoya javanica is also pubescent at the base of the corona where it meets the corolla.

Mike

I wish the montage showed the corollas as well since the color seems to vary somewhat.

Jo,
Do you mind if I ask where you got the variegated cutting? Those and the white edged ones don't seem as readily available!
Congrats!
Kelly

Denise,

I haven't searched the post you are referring to yet, but I think those pics I posted were from other sources. If so, I don't have them anymore. The only pics I have are of my own javanica/multiflora, and I'm STILL confused as to what it is!!

Gabi

Gabi - I think in the Stemma photo gallery that Mark
listed yours as aff. Cyrtoceras floribundum. At least I
thought I saw it labeled as such somewhere and I knew it
was your plant, since it's so outstandingly large !

Jo, what a beautiful Multiflora!! Those blooms are to die for!!

Kelly, I got my variegated one from a trade with a friend, I probally shouldn't mention their name on here or they may be swanped with request for it. It may also be the same as the white edged one, I havn't done any research on it yet.

puglvr Thanks! Have you ever grown this one?

Jo,
Heck, no, I wouldn't mention them either! I thought the source might be a vendor.
Can't remember where I saw the picture of the white-edged albomarginal, actually I think Asiatica used to have it?...here's a link to the variegated which is listed as white edged although it's NOT other white edged one I've seen!
Kelly

Here is a link that might be useful: Variegated Multiflora

Your welcome, Jo! No, I've never tried growing this one...

That variegated one is sure pretty!!

Wow never seen the variegated variety, there is a speckled leaf one out there as well.

Mike