Very Pretty Jan and Jo!! Congrats to you both, I just LOVE serpens flowers, have a small rooted cuttings of Mathilde and love the leaves, I just wish Mathilde flowers were closer to the Serpens. Seems a lot easier for me in(Fl) to grow the Mathilde than Serpens,not as finicky...but the blooms are so worth it! Thanks for sharing!

I have a crappy little KQ that had several new vines of plain white leaves, but no green new growth. Some people suggest removing them to help the plant put it's energy into growing (as the white ones don't produce chlorophyll so don't really do anything but look pretty) I liked the white leaves so I left them on. I realised a few months back that the plant hadn't grown for ages and generally looked poor. I checked it's roots (all good) so, feeling like a murderer, I removed almost all the white leaves (I left one, I couldn't help it :D) Wouldn't you know, it has suddenly started growing again from all the points I chopped off, and all strong normal KQ leaves. So, in my totally just made up scientific theory, if the plant is big and healthy, a few white leaves are fine. If the plant is small and struggling, remove them and cross your fingers... lol.

Verdance, Thank you very much for your help. I didn’t know the variegation was so variable in the hoya. I’ve seen the variegated creeping fig develop green leaves from time to time, but it usually remains true to the name. There were several rubra plants at the nursery when I purchased mine, all of which had green leaves only. I wonder if they were grown under low light. My plant has reddish (or purplish) stems except the oldest part 2-3” above ground, which is green. I’ve only had this plant for 3 weeks, but it seems to be growing relatively fast, with two new, fully-formed reddish dark green leaves (shown below) on now a much longer stem. I‘ll keep watching how it grows. Thank you again! Akiko

You say the soil is moist - has it always been like that and still the leaves shriveled? If so I still suspect that the roots are somehow compromised. Can you take a pic of the root ball - may be that will give a clue. Usually, if you see roots circling around the outside then it means the soil is too wet. But if there are lots of roots just at the bottom then it the soil is too dry. These are just rules of thumb. If a plant has been in a pot for too long you may see both. The main workhorse are white fibrous roots that do all the work of absorbing water and nutrients. Did you see any white roots? Roots suffer when the soil is too dry and also when too wet. Often problems occur when the soil is very water retentive and roots are deprived of oxygen. Most commercial garden soils are very water retentive.