Gabi, I'v been stuck with a few trades that were not what I was told they were so I always try and find out what I have or at least to give it a good shot if I can't find a name then I will trade or sell it as a unknown but never as well it might be this or that I feel thats not the right way to do things I have lots of could be epies but until they have the right names there unkowns that goes for any of my hoyas or Rhipsalis or any other plant but that just me Bear

Susan, i'm gonna have to talk to Ric, he mentioned wanting to do a trade but never told me he had this plant. Looks like he's been holding back on me!!!! No really Ric's a good guy and an excellent trade partner. I've been dealing with him for several years now and have never been disappointed with anything that he's sent to me and he often sends extras. Sue if I stopped buying hoyas life wold have no meaning!!!! I'm a junkie and I admit it!!! hoyas are very muck like crack for me ( and no i've never done the real thing) maybe I need an intervention!!!! I can only imagine what it's like for a drug addict trying to get off of whatever it is that they're on because I know what it wold be like for me if I couldn't get any new hoyas for a year!!!! I'd most likely be down at the funny farm in one of those tight white jackets with my arms wrapped around my back jumping up and down and bouncing off the walls!!!!! Denise, the second listing could have very easily been overlooked as there was only one listing separating the 2 kentianas. If you scrolled down too fast like I did the first time I saw the listing,chances are you went right over it without even knowing. The last plant with the option to buy now is gone and it was a forum member who got it because they sent me an email jokingly saying that they need to be hung from the highest tree for letting me lead them into temptation!!!! Mike this is also new to me. I am aware that the Thai's have a new variegated form of hoya obscura (which they are clinging tightly to) but this one apparently has been riding under the radar for a while especially if someone has a plant of it large enough to propagate already. I want to know how the plant came about. Was it just some vines on a mother plant that had variegation on them or did man have a hand in it. I don't know just how true this is but I was told some years ago, from a source who should know that if seeds from a plant were exposed to the slightest amount of radiation that the seedlings would be variegated. maybe the next time a hoya seed pods ripens i'll throw them into the microwave for 1 second and then plant them and see what happens. I want it to be seed from a hoya like lambii can you imagine what a variegated hoya lambii would look like!!!

There's an old thread about the difference H. wayetti vs. kentiana that explains it technically. My eyeballs don't see much of a difference in the flowers. But with the green versions, it's the leaves that are only slightly different - wayetti develops almost black margins when given high light, and even in lower light conditions, the margins are darker than the rest of the leaf. I don't grow kentiana personally, but in photos, you don't see that dark leaf margin. Of course, with a variegated form, the leaf margins are cream, so I don't know how one would know for sure which it really is. Unless, of course, you get flowers and your eyes can see the difference in the flowers. Denise in Omaha

Mealies are usually white or a light pink and fuzzy. That looks more like plant sap. The spots are from damage to the leaves. The second and third picture is not scale but it looks like the leaves have been damaged or pricked by something and it has scarred.