Day 230: While Hoya fitchii was trying to impress me with massed blooms, Hoya ilagiorum was preparing to enter the competition for "Most Colourful." Ilagiorum took its own sweet time to form and hold its first flowers, but once it figured out the procedure, the inflorescences have been becoming larger with each successive flowering period. They have also become richer in colour, more like the "red" depicted in the catalog. Although Ilagiorum only put on two clusters on this round, they were quite fragrant. Both species flower on woody spurs which must not be removed since new flowers form at the spurs' tips. This is characteristic of many (but not all) Hoyas.
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