I think you have to put the cursor below the picture, hit the enter key and THEN try to upload another picture.

Boom.

Oh, and you gotta wait for the little green swirl thing to be done before you type anything or try to do another photo.

I've had about 50% success even getting my comments to post. The green swirl thing never turns into a pic most of the time for me. Today seems to be the exception.

Oh, my really long posts like to disappear from the text box if I've been away from the browser for too long. It's enough to wanna quit.

Nm

Denise,

Did you ever get it figured out? Do you have a different thread with all the pictures?

Denise, that is a most white beauty..I don't think I have any that bloom white like that. IT's beautiful..Does it have a strong fragrance? Looks like it.

Not a strong fragrance, Mike. A white bloomer with out of this world fragrance, verticillata is outstanding!

Denise in Omaha

Denise...seriously, I thought you'd come back to this thread with OTHER pictures of OTHER Hoyas: blooms/peduncles, plants taking over because you weren't paying close enough attention to all those tendrils.

where is our Denise showcase picture thread that the title advertises?

I'm going to hold my words of disappointment until you've had a chance to see this because surely you didn't mean to get our hopes all up then just abandon us like that. Not the Denise I know. (lol, lol)

Youve certainly many pictures that haven't been posted while you were without posting capabilities, right?

At least some verticillata?

My purpureo-fusca is growing like crazy, I just up potted it from its tiny VB pot into a I think 4" square pot. Maybe it'll be a fast to mature and give me something this winter, lol.

thank you for the pictures, they are amazing! The verticillata is so adorable, maybe one day I'll have the pleasure of having the fragrance dance through my olfactories.

and your red buttons just makes me want to go sing "the Growing Song" to mine! Oh, "the Growing Song"? Well, I haven't written it yet, but I figure we can do something similar to what they did for dogs.

Like:

"You're a good dog"

http://youtu.be/Ak538bdZij0

or

"squeaky deaky"

http://youtu.be/j5WszpDbbqk

Denise, I think your pub Red button is Hoya ban gnong gnoy. Beautiful blooms!

The flowers don't look dark enough all over but especially in the center to be Hoya ban gnong gnoy. To my untrained eye, that is. Here's one of Doug's: http://vermonthoyascom.fatcow.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/IMG_3445.jpg

i don't know how to embed the photo into the post. They don't use bbcode here, I don't think lol.

It's not letting me load my photo right now but I will post mine.

I went through Firefox, it let me post a photo but not on Google. Hmmm!

Flowers looks different depending on when the photo was taken. Bright lights, low lights, morning, noon or evening, shades or if photo was done professionally.

I have Ban Ngong Ngoy, too, and the leaves are way less succulent that pubicalyx 'Red Buttons'. Here's my Ngong Ngoy...

I do agree that the flowers are very similar, but I find the leaves and vines different. The leaves in your photo are exactly like my Ngong Ngoy - dark green, almost iridescently shiny, rubbery. 'RB' leaves are lighter green, heavier/thicker and become very succulent with age. Another thing about Ngong Ngoy I notice are the stems stay almost black.

Denise in Omaha