I have one of these - I believe it's a Nephthytis "Holly"......Syngonium podophyllum. The ID tag that came with it says "low light". That's a joke - it needs bright light for good pink color of the leaves. I don't understand how they determine a plant needs "low light" or "medium light". I think they ALL should say "bright light"! :)

Thanks all for the compliments on my cuttings. I promise you it was sheer dumb luck they grew as I have no clue what I am doing and at times I'm sure they suffered from just that exact right combination of benign neglect! I have learned recently not to cut off spent flowers! Ooops - that is standard practice in the non-hoya arena! It is exciting to get all these names and I promise to write them down and put a stick in each plant! Wow - I have lots of guesses and some concensus too. I will copy all of the names and look for links and photos. Thanks for the ID on the variegated macrophylla and I'll check out the other. hills, you might be correct on the Wayetti. The one in the gentleman's photo has more color but that could be due to growing conditions, but the leaf shape and habit are the same. Your link provided me a name on another hanging basket hoya I didn't post a photo. His H. curtisii (Thailand "larger leaf") is a dead ringer for a large hanging plant I keep at my kitchen sink window. It has never bloomed. Pirate girl - I don't know about shipping now as it is cold where I live right now too. I'm in MD. We had our first snow a few days ago! If you send an email I'll reply with my new email address, so we are set with a firm address/email so I can send you the cuttings in spring. That email I left won't be around for too much longer though as I am getting rid of it (it's dial up for crying out loud:-) Thanks again folks - what a great start point for enhancing my searches. Hoyas are tough to ID! Oh, wanted to ask again - any good Hoya books out there? I have looked and looked to no avail. It's seems a shame that such great plants don't have a book to themselves that also has tons of color photographs (my favorite type plant books). CT

"Scouring rush does not spore on top of separate stems - see attached photos." Sorry, but I disagree. Like other members of the genus, what you are referring to as scouring rush, Equisetum hymale, produces both sterile (sporeless) stems and fertile stems with a rounded spore cone at the top. (Fertile and sterile scouring rush stems). carol, the plant in question is some species of Equisetum, commonly known as horsetail or scouring rush. Pretty much any of the species one encounters in the US are aggressive, even rampant spreaders if conditions are to their liking. To your everlasting regret if planted in the ground but relatively safe from world domination if grown in a container :-)) Your samples are just portions of stems and look to be newly emerged shoots as well, so not necessarily characteristic of any particular species at this point in time. More mature samples would be easier to ID.

Just to clarify, I only placed them in my larger outdoor pots while I was outside. Somehow, they found their own way into my smaller- & medium-sized pots all on their own. Which happened while my plants were outdoors. I didn't even know that they were there until I went to soak my pots. And even then, there were only a few of them. All of which were a fraction of the size of the outdoor earthworms. No bigger than the ones in iamhopscotch's photos. They have been there for at least two years now and not once have they ever negatively affected the health of any of my plants. So I pretty much leave them alone. I don't use them to aerate my already fast-draining soil. And even if they "break down" the soil, "Earthworms leave behind excrement or castings containing from 5 to 11 times the amount of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium they have ingested." All of which the plants can use.I repot my plants long before the soil gets depleted, and the old soil gets tossed out into the remote corners of my yard, along which whatever's inhabiting it. Even if my new, fresh potting soil were to somehow gain newer earthworms, I wouldn't go out of my way to try and rid them from my pots. People want to try and grow their plants in sterile environments, dousing their plants with fungicides and insecticides, and nature doesn't work like that. I'm not advocating putting earthworms in your indoor pots. I was simply stating that I found them in my indoor plants and never once have I encountered any problems from them being there. Sure, I placed them in my large, outdoor pots. But that was because those pots stay outdoors year-round. The smaller earthworms found their own way into my smaller pots, while those pots were outdoors. People claim that they can't survive living in containers, but the small ones in mine seem to do just fine. Even if they were to die, their remains end up breaking down into enriched nutrients that the plants can use.