Beautiful! LOVE that motoskei and RHP! I have both, but they haven't flowered yet. Motoskei has a peduncle on it, so I am hoping for some blooms soon. My plant is very small, but I do see some growth on it.

Brad AKA Moonwolf

Ahhh the RHP flowers are gorgeous! And the skinneriana is really nice too. Beautiful plants! :D

Thanks Greenhouse! That poor RHP had a very rough time of it....it was a freebie cutting thrown in with another order (I can't remember from who now) and it was labeled P. "Bright Eyes"....since I wasn't really into to pubicalyx I stuck the cutting into a pot of dirt and ignored it---it went thirsty, it fell on the floor a couple of times, it was crowded out from under the lights....it did manage to survive (barely) until the weather warmed up and I put it outside with the rest of the crew...under the improved conditions it promptly "stress flowered" and I immediately apologized profusely to the plant and started actually taking care of it....it's now budding up again on the same peduncle; I don't think it's from stress this time, so hopefully it means it's accepted my apology :-)

Haha! What a history, it definitely looks like it has recovered quite well! :) Nice work.

Will do, Shelley! The only pubicalyx I've ever experienced in bloom was Red Buttons and I LOVE the fragrance on it. It reminds me of a Tootsie Roll Pop :). The flowers looked very similar to the RHP flowers (mottled with pink and purple-some were dark purple). Red Buttons is probably my favorite out of all the pubicalyxes.

Brad AKA Moonwolf

Okay Brad---I'll look forward to it....I'm also officially jealous--I've never seen Red Buttons in bloom (outside of pictures on the web) and your description of the fragrance sounds fabulous....hopefully one of my 3 new plants will turn out to actually BE Red Buttons...who knows? I also ordered something called "pubicalyx "Dark Purple" from Bob Smoley's...another mystery plant....I think the whole pubicalyx family needs to studied and sorted out...also wonder about their relationship to carnosa, which I suspect is very close....

Shelley, the fragrance is astounding. It gets stronger at night, so have them someplace where the fragrance can waft if they ever bloom indoors. Hoya names have always been a bit of a tangle, but I think now that the wonder of the Internet can help demystify some of the species.

Brad AKA Moonwolf

Okay Brad--IF my new hoyas bloom and IF one of them is Red Buttons, I'll be sure to situate it in a good wafting area....my hoyas are in the kitchen during the winter and I have had them bloom indoors---I'll forget they're there and when I stumble into the kitchen in the middle of the night to get a drink of water I've been almost knocked over by the scent---it's amazing how they can turn it up when it gets dark....I especially remember pachyclada, who blooms pretty reliably in the late Fall, just filling the kitchen with fragrance (and I have high ceilings too)....Anyhow, my hoyas can waft in the kitchen and hallway as much as they want, but I'm not sure I'd want a lot of wafting in the bedroom when I'm trying to sleep....so I'm glad there's no direct connections between the two rooms....:-)

Usually, the pubicalyx members have a musky/floral scent, so that sounds like a good place for them :). These definitely aren't Hoyas fit for a bedroom or any similar small space. I'd like to have company over someday (when I have a place of my own), and have them walk into the hallways or a certain room and say 'What a nice scent! What air freshener is that?' and then they would notice the Hoya in bloom at the time. My favorite one for scent is lacunosa and it's varieties. They're smaller Hoyas, but they're huge in fragrance.

Brad AKA Moonwolf