What is the name of this plant?
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Tamara W
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I have had this plant for over 5 years. I don't know what it is. It took 4 1/2 years for it to bloom!! Any tips on how to take care of it will be appreciated. Thanks to all.
Can you post one of the blooms and much better photos of the leaves with the petioles? This is an almost impossible photo to use for identification.
Could it be a Hoya.
hoya ?
Lipstick plant, doesn't like wet feet, I have mine near my orchids and feel soil before watering, no direct sun burns leaves but mine was a rescue
and thrives now repotted in light mix of soil and peat moss mist when I mist my orchids has bloomed twice this year
It appears to be a variety of lipstick,the photo does not show enough detail. If it is bright light and water when dry to the touch. Fertilizing in lieu of water depending on you location will aid in produces flowers.
It looks like my Rubber Tree. Lots of light and little water.
not a rubber tree. they have large leaves
it's a Hoya
Thank you to all that have responded. I looked at pictures of the lipstick plant after looking it up online. Those pictures confirmed my thoughts. I do have a lipstick plant. Again, thank you.
Looks to me like a hoya
I find if I cut my lipstick plant back it blooms within a month or two .
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Looks like a goldfish plant
I say it's a Hoyiah( probably not spelled right) pronounced Hoy yah...
Its a Hoya
Hoya, does it have pink waxy flowers that are fragrant? I have one my Grandmother gave me in 1971. Lots of runners and have given runners to friends and they start really well if you use Root Starter.
madagaskar jasmine.
Yes, as the plant gets older the clusters get larger.
My grandmother called hers "Hawaiian Tears" because the blooms leak a very sweet nectar.
Until recently, I had several huge plants that I started from one small cutting she gave me forty hears ago. I'm down to one small cutting again that I'm hoping will survive a few more months of drafty RV life. My new home will be ready to move into soon and I'm nursing this little sprout that reminds me of my Gramma Ruth.
Looks like confederate jasmine: does it bloom fragrant tiny whit flowners in summer?
That's a rubber plant
that is called a lip stick plant, I have a few and they are so nice when they do bloom watch each step and you will see how it looks like a lip stick.
It is just kind of like the gold fish plant but it gets red and gold fish flowers and yellow orange like
Lip stick plant
HOYA....not a lipstick plant
I agree...hoya!!
Actually... have a question..those of you what a "snake plant" is I have one several yrs old and this past summer it bloomed!!! Had never seen one, they were white almost looks like a honeysuckle or jasmine but not scented.
It is a Hoya and the flowers are very unusual and it seldom blooms. Mine are outside in Region 9 but not in direct sun. Don't let it set in water. I very seldom fertilize mine, but just use a regular one when I do. Good luck! They're not the easiest to grow!
It's a Hoya plant. Mine blooms once a year around Fathers day. Do not pick off the flower stems, let blossoms fall off. That's where the new ones bloom from. I have mine in a standing planter, I hook metal coathangers around the edge and open the bottom into a circle, then when the vine gets long enough, I wind it around the metal circle. They don't like to be repotted or moved, mine gets morning indirect sun and I got it from my mother in law 26 years ago!
Yes Hoya. My mom had one for years and it just grew in water, bloomed too. Also called wax plant
I'll take that back. I looked at the pic again and saw the red tube flowers. I agree lipstick plant.
Definitely a Hoya..
Lipstick. Definitely.
yes, Aeschynanthus, some varieties are known as lipstick plant. Wait a few days and those blooms will be even prettier.
It is a hoya...it will not flower till mature....then you have flowers once a year....I would love to find a cutting....no one seems to sell them here anymore. There different types of this plant...variegated too....even some with pink in there leaves...love them
I have both the "mother" and the "baby" hoya plant. The mother is over 40 years old and blooms beautifully every year. I don't fertilize it and I haven't repotted it in years and years. Love my hoyas!
I have this exact plant in my office. I bought it in August and it has just bloomed. Something "Angel."
It definitely is a Hoya.....lipstick plant has thin leaves
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