Fragrant Hoya in Bloom

[delphiguy]

Cheers,

I got this hoya a while back and since then I have never seen it flower.
Anyways just a few days after Christmas I noticed that it is budding so I said to
myself I hope this one opens just in time for the fireworks.... so the morning of
Dec31, I looked at it and seems nothing is going on, around 5pm of the same
day I looked at it again and nothing changes... so I have already given up hope
that it'll open on that day.... at around 11pm just as i was preparing our
fireworks and the neighbors are already firing up theirs, I noticed a very strong
floral fragrance when I past by my grow area... at first i thought that it may
be the Brassavola Little Stars as it was in bloom then... but then I noticed that
the fragrance is not like that of a Little Stars... so I looked closely and lo and
behold the hoya has opened its buds. I was very ecstatic then so I grabbed
for the camera and took this photo, hopefully someone can Id it, im not a big fan
of hoya's but this changed my mind so i guess i'll be growing more hoyas soon aswell.
The flower didnt last long tho, just barely a week but yesterday I looked at it again
and its budding from the same spot where it has bloomed before.

[raindeepak4u]

Lovely looking flowers .. does it fragrant ?

[lanhua]

Hi Randy, a nice flowers. It's a local species?

[zainal abidin]

Randy this one really look like a pearl, great shot.

[lanhua]

Hi Randy, my friend told me it's Hoya merrillii.

[pavel]

Nice flowers, RAndy. It is very common for hoya blooms to be short-lived -- one or two weeks is about the max for any I know of. However, many will rebloom from the same peduncle (area from which flowers emerge) over and over again.

[Molly Taco]

Very Pretty, I love Hoyas

[delphiguy]

Nice flowers, RAndy. It is very common for hoya blooms to be short-lived -- one or two weeks is about the max for any I know of. However, many will rebloom from the same peduncle (area from which flowers emerge) over and over again.

Thanks, thats what I was told. And now it seems to be getting ready to throw off another set of blooms.

[delphiguy]

Hi Randy, my friend told me it's Hoya merrillii.

Thanks for the ID Meitek, Wally actually told me of the name already but since im not into hoya then the name didnt stick to me. Now Ill be shopping for more hoyas
at the Sunday market.

[Brutal_Dreamer]

Cool looking Hoya, Randy. Thanks for sharing it!

Cheers,
BD