Hi Tracy!
Gabi has a great pic under (i think) the "twin peduncles" thread, longifolia has much longer thinner leaves, and a slightly different, less full, growth habit. You will see kentiana has burgundy reddish flowers in the photo, longifolia has more carnosa-ish looking flowers that are all white. Really, if you see the two plants side by side, the differences are very obvious, even without flowers. Check out myhoyas.com, some of the best hoya photos on the web today!
(not that I am telling you to do your OWN research or anything like that, it is just a great site for pictures especially!)

Tracy,

If you just do a google search you should have no problem seeing both hoyas. And the difference is quite obvious (at least to me!). Just do a google "image" search. Did you try to post a pic above? Because I see that you wrote "what is this...", but I don't see a pic.

By the way, I think it's a shame that someone would actually take the time to "privately" email you to tell you to do your own research and to start reading books. EVERYONE is entitled to their own opinion, but like you said, if they don't like your posts they don't have to read them! We are all here to learn and help others...that's all I'll say about the subject, since I know that person is reading this and I don't want to make any waves. But please don't think that we all feel that way. Some ask more questions than others, but that's why we're all different!

Gabi

Yup, I am a dumb a$$....lol.

Here is the pic, the reason I ask is that it was labeled longifolia, but I think it looks like a kentiana.

Tracy

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Hi Tracy, it is kentiana. EA plants sure have lots of wrong lables. Your plants looks nice and healthy.

Yes, Tracy, it is kentiana. If it is an EA plant it probably had the wrong label on it.....I know EA sells a plant they call "Shamapry" and their site also calls it Hoya longifolia, so your kentiana probably had the tag for shamapry/longifolia on it. Never in all the Home Depots and other EA selling stores I have looked in have I seen the EA longifolia, and I have been looking hard for it! I have shepherdi, which is very similar to longifolia except for the flowers, but I would love to find longifolia - though, there is a very good chance that the EA longifolia is really a shepherdi!

I have asked this before but if anyone has the EA shamapry/longifolia and has had it bloom, I would love to see a picture of the flowers or hear what they looked like so I don't wind up buying another shepherdi

The difference is that longifolia has solid white flowers, corona is white too, and shepherdi has very very pale pink flowers, so pale they could pass as white, and they have red in their centers.

As mentioned above in the other posts, THIS is the reason for sticking to the botanical names, because I know if I come across the EA "shamapry" it most likely will not be in bloom, and I will buy it anyway being the addict that I am, and somewhere down the road I will find that I wasted my money when it turns out the be shepherdi, which I already have!! Though in EA's case, they get the botanical names wrong sometimes too....

Ines. I would love to send you cuttings from my Longifolia. I would love for someone to correctly identify it for me...It has already bloomed (not very well), but my cuttings in water are blooming also.

I was told it was a "Longoria", but people on this site told me it was a Longifolia..I have no idea what kind it is.. MaryTX

Hi Mary, I'd be happy to get cuttings, but you can probably tell what it is by the flowers when it blooms - I can't tell the difference by looking at the foliage, longifolia and shepherdii look the same to me, someone who really knows alot about hoyas could see the difference but I couldn't. The extent of what I want to know is enough not to buy the same plant twice, I can't be bothered with all the subtle "botanical" differences like minute differences in leaf size and all that stuff. Kentiana has shorter and wider leaves and the one I have has red edges along the borders of the leaves.

I have seen pictures of longifolia and shepherdii right next to each other recently but can't remember where, I will see if it comes to me and post a link for the pictures. Do your flowers have any red at the centers?