Ilagiorum

Day 325: I am so excited! Hoya ilagiorum has produced its first spur, and it has a dozen or so little bitty buds! This is the red-flowering version (H. ilagiorum may have red, orange or yellow flowers), if the seller's description holds true. Presumably, it was started from a cutting, so it should be identical to the parent plant. It is said to be an "intermittent" bloomer, flowering several times a year like H. fitchii and H. bella. I've had the plant for six or seven years, and had kept it hanging in an east window until last fall when I rotated plants and relocated it to a northern exposure. Was that the factor which made the difference? Fitchii prefers the north window, but bella is not particular. Perhaps now that ilagiorum has settled in, it will become as prolific as the others.