katrun,i have a hindo rope plant to trade for your austrails hoya.could i please see a photo . it may be a few days before i can get back to a computer. plmk,molly

I just ordered an HSI-037! (http://r.ebay.com/1W6S2g) I thought it was so pretty, and was wondering why it looks different. Thanks for the info, aurorawa! I'm putting together a "community" pubicalyx pot right now. So far I have pink silver, RHP, red buttons, Splash, and black Dragon in the pot. 037 will be the final cutting and maybe white dragon if I can get my hands on one. Can't wait until they all root and I have a mature plant with all the different flower combinations and leaf patterns :) exciting!

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.

Looks like a carnosa. Of course, there are so many carnosa X carnosa crosses AND carnosa X pubicalyx crosses in circulation, that it is next to impossible to narrow it down to a specific cultuvar. It is a very pretty specimen, regardless!