You are right...It doesn't matter when the plant is so beautiful!!! If I had to guess I'd say Hawaiian purple, but that IS just a guess!

Nice growing and enjoy:-)
Diane

Nice, Lydia! I'll have to put this one on my wish list. I assume the new leaves start out the purple and then turn green? Very pretty, I must say!

Denise in Omaha

Hi Lydia,
I don't know if you can trust photos or not but here is an interesting link that show two distinct blooms from Royal Hawaiian Purple (see number 20) and says it "reverts back to red buttons". They may not know of what they speak but it just adds to the confusion.
http://www.collectorscorner.com.au/Cacti/CactihoyaList2.htm

-Leon

Lydia, YOU GROW GIRL!!!! Beautiful pictures! Thanks for sharing!
I found an explanation of the differences in those two, it also explains why the flower color varies in different temps. I noticed Hoya compacta in Feb. the blooms were deep pink, the same peduncles produced very light pink flowers in the summer months!
I'll paste the pubicalyx info below....

1). Royal Hawaiian Purple is the correct name for the one you have seen labeled Hoya chimera and Hoya pubicalyx cv. Chimera. Back in the early 1980s, Dexter Heuschkel sent cuttings of this to both Dale Kloppenburg and to me. Dale who was anxious to get his name attached to as many new species as possible, wrote it up as a new variety of Hoya pubicalyx, which he called Hoya pubicalyx chimera (I think he spelled that a bit differently). Dexter included collection data with those cuttings and I checked it out. The collection data was the address of a flower shop in Manila. He did not get it from the jungle. The owner of the flower shop was a customer of mine. I sold that hoya to her around 1977. It was Royal Hawaiian Purple.
2). Red Buttons is the name of a cultivar of the late Genevieve McDonald of Merritt's Island, FL. I have a letter in my files from Mrs. McDonald saying that she selected it from seedlings found on a hoya growing in her garden. It differs from Royal Hawaiian Purple in having smaller leaves with less speckling on them Contrary to what you may have read elsewhere, there is some speckling on some of the leaves but not all. Contrary to what you may have read elsewhere, the flower of Red Buttons DO sometimes appear variegated as do those of Royal Hawaiian Purple.
The The dark red (almost black) coronas are an illusion. I have done countless experiments with these flowers and I learned that the corona is transparent and the corollas more or less white. The corona is filled with a sponge-like material as is an area surrounding the carpels. There are nectaries at the base of the carpels which exude dark red, almost black nectar. This blachish red nectar is absorbe by the "sponge" and drawn up into the corona, making the lobes appear dark. In cool weather this absorption is very gradual so that the sap fills the corona lobes and leaks out from between the anther wings and colours the corolla evenly, before the buts open.
In very hot weather this dark sap "boils" over and starts spilling out before the flowers open and the result it that much of it spills without touching all parts of the corolla petals and you have a variegated flower. My observation is that this is less likely to occur when plants are growing outdoors. Plants receiving direct sun through glass are more likely to have this happen as glass multiplies the the amount of heat generated by the sun.
My conclusion is that the flower colour comes from that sap and variegation from overheating of that sap.

Wow,that's beautiful!!! I didn't know they came in that color.TFS
Kathi

Oooh--those grapey colors are luscious!! That TX sun must be magic.... Thanks for the treat!
'Mare

Here is my red button for comparison.

Here is a link that might be useful:

My favorites Hoya Pubicalyx family!!

Yes, I love them too, and there seems to be a lot of newer ones since back when I was collecting before. There is Jungle Garden, white dragon, black dragon, heavily splashed varieties, and some hybrids I believe. I like the ones with lots of leaf interest as I usually only get blooms in the summer months, and they keep my interest through the winter. I find them to be as easy as the carnosas to grow.

I traded Hoyas with someone from here years ago named with Linda or Lydia from Arizona I think. The Hoya I traded to them was identified as silver pink or pink silver but the bloom looks a lot like that one!

Could have been me. I traded a lot of cuttings from this plant on here

LOL! No I mean I sent a person some cuttings from my plant she identified from a photo of the bloom, as a silver pink or a pink silver after seeing my photo. She sent me a large leaved hoya cutting that bloomed white starburst looking blooms.

Oh ok. wasn't me then lol....

I ordered black dragon, white dragon and am on a waiting list for pink dragon. I still need jungle garden :-P

Ric or Susan in Fl. Have Jungle Garden cuttings.May even have 4 or5 in. Pots of it. (Not really a good time of year to start cuttings, but it can be done if you keep them warm and humid.

Lydia where do you get your from?

I buy off of ebay, internet stores, local nurseries and home depot.

I've ordered from Ric and Susan before. I'll keep an eye out for their auctions.

Also, Aurorawa(88) that posts here sells hoyas. She may have one too. You could also message Ric or Susan from their Facebook pages and ask about it. Not too many hoya listings on eBay this time of year. Can be touchy mailing from cold places. You may want to wait until spring.

I cannot find a super splash. Susan is out.can you sell one of the cuttings that you put up photos of in your other post Lydia ?

I hate it that the home depot in Indiana NEVER has hoyas.I wonder why that is... No matter what time of year, you just cannot find a hoya, other than Hindu rope and Rubra. Maybe if your lucky a ruby sue. Maybe... That's it!!! Why?!?;?!?.!!!!!!!!

I'm OK now.. Carry on...lol

My HD or Lowes and Walmarts never ever have them here either. Everybody always posts how they find them there so I always look, ....but nope. However, a few years back the Stater Bros. grocery stores kept getting several varieties in. Haven't seen any lately though. A nursery here USED to have big specimens of several kinds that came in regularly, but this year they said they no longer carry them as the supplier moved. Bummer!

Not a good time of year to trust cuttings in the mail to cold areas unless they ship with heat pacts. They rot easily if exposed to very cold temps.

Bridgett, send me your email. I don't know how to private message through here. It's weird, I can message some members but not others.

Yeah I know. It's crazy . bjgooden3424@gmail.com

Lydia...where did you order your white dragon ( guess it is actually H. celata now), and your pink dragon from? I want to get them later on but I am having trouble finding any listings for them. I just want to get on the wait list too.

HRS hoyas for waiting list....the white dragon from ebay. Took a chance and ordered from out of the country. Yares I believe is the seller.

I'm on the waiting list for the deep vein kerrii as well.