I think just about all forms of australis that I've seen have had a red marking behind the corona, but depending on light conditions flowers can be more or less colorful. I've seen Hoya siamica solid white and with red behind the corona and I once had red dots on the corona lobes of my Hoya limoniaca.... Quoting a well known Hoya grower "colour is not a good indicator to a species" The reason I think it looks like ssp. tenuipes (it could be something else as there are so many varieties) is mainly that the plant looks completely glabrous but also the color of the leaves and new growth... not forgetting that it's also the most common australis in trade which probably affects my opinion. However, I've never seen a (correctly identified) ssp. australis that wasn't pubescent.

Jessaka, Good point that we need to be thankful for the rain we're receiving! OK, y'all, I'm not as much in the mood to dance today. Our ground is still very, very wet and I want to get some planting done after the Sunday-Monday cold spell passes. It rained lightly here last night, but I haven't looked at the rain gauge yet. I don't expect that we got much rain....but we really needed it at PRECISELY that point because we had 6 or 7 fire departments out fighting 2 wildfires at the time the rain started. Talk about rain falling just when it was needed! I tilled three raised beds yesterday, working last year's decomposed mulch (now pretty much just compost with a few chunks of bark) into the soil. It was still pretty damp, but wasn't wet until you got 6 to 8 inches below the soil surface. I was racing the rainclouds....could see them coming and knew if I didn't till those beds, I wouldn't be able to plant in them on Monday. Now, they may be wet from last night's rain, but they're "ready to go" as soon as they dry out a little. There's more rain in our forecast for today and for later in the week. After watching what has been going on with the flooding, especially in Missouri, I am grateful that we received only heavy rains here and no flooding. Dawn

Hi Glenda, I did get your card and thank you much! Still having problems--the tech wasn't even sure how he got on my e-mail, but he left it on and from there I was able to come back here via the Garden Web site. Missed you!!

So my thought is that the blue mask is more of a spit shield because it does not form a good fit. Most that I’m finding on the market seem to have a plastic strip that barely holds its shape over the bridge of your nose, but even the wire ones don’t seem great. As stated previously this is why I have been using first aid tape to close the gaps. But inadequate coverings including gapping masks are so common in my area that I don't really think this can be blamed that much on varying recommendations from official sources. I think a lot of it is people still not taking the threat seriously - particularly in local rural areas, where completely uncovered faces being presented to randomly encountered other people not living in the same household is apparently still commonplace. Otherwise what I see is people working together not covering, as though they think the same household rule applies to same workplace as well - this morning while channel surfing I came across a talk show that is said to be broadcast live where the two hosts on screen at the time where uncovered and sitting barely 6' apart, if that. And probably many of us now know about the TV interview with the ER nurse who described how she is is getting terminal COVID patients who insist right up to their last breath that they don't have COVID. I think we really are to the point where going out in public just isn't feasible for anyone who needs/wants to be sure of staying safe - which is quite a problem for me because I don't want to expose my credit card to the internet. And of course any delivery driver bringing stuff so ordered could be infected, same as the guy standing in front of me in a checkout line this week wearing a dish towel low on his nose. With a gap at the bottom - every time myself or another ends up in such circumstances we could be stepping into a COVID cloud after the careless party ahead moves closer to the register.