Comments | methos_fan: Plant or Alien--you decide

methos_fan

Plant or Alien--you decide

Jul 09, 2008 20:29

I've had this plant (behind the cut) for 7 years. For a really long time, it didn't grow at all. Then one day it started sprouting new curly leaves and its growth accelerated. Then one day last week, pink flowers started blooming. They're pretty. There is a bunch of them. They're waxy looking.

I'm wondering if this is really an alien and the ( Read more... )

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Sorry, not ET adabsolutely July 10 2008, 04:44:17 UTC

I think it is some kind of a hoya. Pretty cool. They have an interesting fragrance that you smell mostly in the evening. I have a couple other types of hoyas. The mini hoya blooms all the time. The other one never has. I'll look in one of my books to see if I can find the specific specie you have. It certainly has grown since the last time I saw it. Lovely blooms. Now you too do flower porn:-)

Re: Sorry, not ET methos_fan July 10 2008, 05:56:21 UTC

Ha! Maybe it's an ET-hoya. Maybe your books will say, "Ha, ha AD. It really is an alien." Stranger things have happened. :)

(What's flower porn?)

Re: Sorry, not ET adabsolutely July 10 2008, 23:04:02 UTC

Flower porn -- pretty pictures of flowers:-)

Re: Sorry, not ET anya2112 July 10 2008, 12:40:46 UTC

*snark*

ithildyn July 10 2008, 04:45:06 UTC

I've seen this sort of plant/flowers before. I think my grandmother had one. But I don't know anything about it. Maybe take a photo to your local nursery?

methos_fan July 10 2008, 05:59:02 UTC

A nursery? You think little kids can help me? Hee! (I'm so tired I'm slap-happy.)

adabsolutely July 10 2008, 04:53:43 UTC

Looked in my big book, wow, over 200 hundred species. Go look at this wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoya

methos_fan July 10 2008, 06:04:28 UTC

Thanks for looking it up but the summary paragraph doesn't describe my plant.

Hoyas are evergreen climbing vines or shrubs growing to 1-10 m (or more with suitable support in trees). They have simple opposite leaves 5-30 cm long that are typically succulent, and in many species are flecked with irregular small silvery spots.

adabsolutely July 10 2008, 15:51:54 UTC

Look at the flowers again. Trust me it's a hoya.

methos_fan July 10 2008, 17:02:39 UTC

oh. too bad. I was hoping. . .

luscious_words July 10 2008, 14:21:57 UTC

Oooh, how lovely, but it's unlike any plant I've seen. I definitely see the alien resemblance though. Seems like a pefectly logical question. ;)

methos_fan July 10 2008, 16:58:01 UTC

I knew it! The truth is out there. *g*

luscious_words July 10 2008, 17:26:29 UTC

*giggle* Shouldn't you have Scully-Mulder icon for that comment? ;)

methos_fan July 10 2008, 19:11:37 UTC

I thought about that as I typed the reply. I don't have a Scully-Mulder icon. *g*

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beeej July 10 2008, 15:27:52 UTC

Wow. I've never seen anything like that! How fascinating!

methos_fan July 10 2008, 16:59:49 UTC

I think your reply is more evidence that the plant is an alien life form--just like that life form in your icon. *g*

beeej July 10 2008, 17:53:34 UTC

That's no alien! That's the Green Man.
*taps microphone*
"Found in many cultures around the world, the Green Man is often related to natural vegetative deities springing up in different cultures throughout the ages. Primarily it is interpreted as a symbol of rebirth, or "renaissance," representing the cycle of growth each spring. "
*steps down from podium*

:)

methos_fan July 10 2008, 19:15:35 UTC

*taps microphone*
methos_fan wishes to apologize to the Green Man for accusing him of being an alien life form.

*steps down from podium with a look of sheepish embarrassment on face, trying not to break out laughing since that would be rude*

:-)