I agree with Denise that Compacta is a little more tightly curly!! But it is beautiful plant! It looks very healthy!! TFS !

Beautiful!

Thanks, ya'll. Really? Of course I'm not that surprised that the EA tag is wrong. Do those people not even CARE what they have and propagate? I looked up the two cultivars you mentioned, Denise, and it just doesn't seem to fit either one. Here's a close up of the leaves. Maybe you could give me your opinion on it. Some leaves are tightly curled; others are less so on the long vines. I'll be interested in what you think. I can always relabel it, and I'd sure like to be right before I take cuttings of it and send them off with others.

I think it is compacta. Some of compacta leaves can be "folded and bent" more than others.

H. carnosa 'Chelsea' leaf outlines are very flat, even though there are dimples in the middle of the leaves.

A similar thing happens with 'Krinkle 8' - the leaf outlines are consistently straight.

Here, leaf outlines are wavy and irregular - only compacta does this, I think.

Gorgeous plant and flowers! Did you get to notice a fragrance yet? They say Compacta has chocolate-scented flowers, like carnosas usually do.

Brad AKA Moonwolf

Hi, Brad, and thank you! The plant is still blooming and, yes, very chocolate-scent to the flowers, making me glad it's outside for the summer. The blooms are different than my other carnosas but they all seem a tiny bit different from each other anyway, even when cuttings from the same mother plant, which I find fascinating.

Good job! Nice blooms! But be careful with the discount plants. Last fall I bought several
discounted plants, after looking them over real good. Some of them are still giving me trouble trying to figure out what is wrong with them. One keeps rotting at the base, one has some
kind of blight. All I am saying is be careful.

You're welcome! You're right, each carnosa seems different from the rest. One has more speckled leaves while it's offspring may have less or none at all or the flowers are lighter (almost white) or darker. I love the color of those flowers on your plant, though! It looks like a blush/pale pink.

Brad AKA Moonwolf

I have never yet found a hoya in any store around here (Calgary, Alberta, Canada). Must be looking in all the wrong places.

Most of my hoyas I got as cuttings from various vendors online, but I do keep an eye out, especially on the bargain tables at BBS. Usually there's not a thing in the world wrong with them, other than maybe a bit of ignorance of care by the staff. I've never gotten one that had bugs. This one was a wee thing back in 2012 when I got it, but it's grown a lot since then. All the local Lowes (seems there's one on every corner here) have a bargain table and I've obtained some awesome plants (not just hoyas) for no more than $3 each. The local Wal-Marts (two of them) both have a bargain table, too. They're usually Exotic Angel plants, which means they're usually a bunch of rooted cuttings rather than a single plant. They just need a little TLC. I can't resist a great deal, so I'll get them, even if I have one just like it, get it robust and healthy, and then gift it to someone I like really well. :) Hopefully you'll find a source for bargain plants in your neck of the woods.