365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Saturday, September 3, 2022
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.
Labels:
flower spur,
houseplants,
Hoya ilagiorum
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