Hi Linda-I am desperate for a cutting of the variegated bella. Would gladly pay you! For trade...I can offer polyneura, serpens, pubicalyx, carnosa, K. Queen and Princess, incurvula, picta, shepherdii, Australis, Hindu Rope, variagated and solid, Nummularioides, Tsangii, Krinkle 8, Kerrii. Can we do business....? Susan

It's kind of a moot point anyway, since I went back and got the plant today. But yeah, I do tend to think that it's probably a lacunosa -- it's one of very few Hoyas I've managed to find that had heart-shaped leaves (there's a pretty good likeness at www.myhoyas.com, one of the pictures, which I found through maidinmontana's thread), and my understanding is that lacunosa is one of the more commonly available Hoya species. I went with the all-green one. Normally I like a little variegation, but this particular plant is nice-looking without. Thanks for the responses.

The ugly markings that I get on mine, remind me that I seriously sunburned nearly all my plants when I brought them over here... I am mixed about what I think of this. Some of you will remember that I put two rooted plain green cuttings into a self-water pot, BEFORE I read that most of you keep this one significantly dryer. It is receiving less sun than before, but is out in the elements all the time, with wind and wild critters. I am pretty excited as one of my sleeping peduncles (which all this time I thought were air roots!) is developing and I should have a bloom in three or four weeks, if the creek don't rise, and I hold my mouth just so! I tend to do a lot of misting under the tree. I have epies, and mostly hoyas out there. The Epi society recommends daily misting to deal with heat, so I crank up the wand, and spray everything in sight! Two days after I made sure to get the Kerrie, two leaves up and showed black markings, like following veins. I backed off a bit spraying, the marks are still there, but not spreading. I am wondering if the 'orginal' environment does not have something like mountain elevation with lots of sun, and humitidy that could be tough to replicate. In the gallery there are awesome shots of blooming Kerriis... makes me really grumpy that this one is soooo tough to figure out. My v. Kerrii cutting spent the winter nearly dry to the bone, teeny cutting, potted up, behind someone else. Emptying the plant room in Spring, and Surprise! Poor thing. Still alive, still two leaves. No sign of three showing up any time soon. All I can offer is that it is a plant that can get seriously ugly!

Yes to Peppers Greenhouse. www.accentsforhomeandgarden.com is their online catalogue. Prices run $4.95 to $5.95, 4" pots, great customer service if you have ??s. My H. kerrii arrived 6 -8" tall, well-rooted, multiple vines and had a total of 8 peduncles. Peduncles dropped but now are producing more, the slow growing variegated is now about 24" tall and the solid green is over 36". Highly recommended.