Hoya pubicalyx red buttons biography

Status: Accepted and established with a description from the San Luis Gardens print sales list,

Category: An open pollinated hybrid

Originator: Genieve McDonald of Merritt Island Florida

Valuable Publications From oldest:

().San Luis Gardens.

&#;Narrow green leaves with light speckling, very dark red blooms, dark corona.

New growth dark red brown, excellent.&#;

(). Red Buttons. The Hoyan.3(1)

&#;None of the other species in commerce appear to have such dark (nearly black) corona scales&#;whatever this plant is, even though the name does not appear to describe it well, it is a designation that I feel is acceptable because it is a name that will be used.

It is a plant so distinctive that it can be confused with no other, at least when it is in bloom, though the blooms are variable in color, often on the same peduncle&#;The variable color ranging from dirty white to almost black seems not to be caused by bleeding nectar&#;it often affects only parts of the flower or e