Identification: Inherited plant flowered only once-I don't know what kind it is

I inherited this plant from my Mom 16 years ago. About a year or two after receiving it, it bloomed a bunch of tiny very fragrant flowers (I think they were light blue?) It hasn't bloomed since and I don't recall it ever blooming when my Mom had it either. Can anyone help me with it's identification? I would sure appreciate it! Thanks in advance

 

Looks like Hoya carnosa. See....

http://www.bonanzle.com/booths/texa...ed_Carnosa___Medium_Pink_flowers__RARE__HTF__

 

I'll give it a go and say, Hoya carnosa variegata alias Wax Plant. I'm not sure I've ever seen blue flowers but there are a bazillion Hoya's out there. Google Hoya plant and go thru umteen sites and see if anything matches your plant. The carnosa is one of the more common ones and very forgiving and an easy plant to grow. The brighter the indirect light the more it will bloom.
barb

 

definitely variegated hoya carnosa. if you, by chance, took off the penducles after it bloomed, than that's why you've not seen flowers again...new buds will form again on the same spot (unlike other plants that need the spent buds to be removed to go into bud again).

what conditions do you have it in? by that i mean how much light and what direction is it coming from? how about the soil? and heat and watering?

 

Curious, when was it last repotted? 16 years in the same pot can become toxic to the root system. On the other hand, your Hoya looks wonderful , most healthy too!

 

First of all I would like to thank everyone for their help, I really appreciate it! Thanks Luddite@Machen that looks exactly like mine, I'm pretty sure you're correct in identifying it!
To answer the questions joclyn had asked... I just repotted it in the last 6 months, I'm not very educated in the field of plants so I don't know what a penducle is??? I have it hanging in an east window and I think it's a zone 3 (Central Alberta) that I live in so it gets a fair amount of direct sunlight especially in the summer months, I have no idea what kind of soil it is in, I think I just used a bag of potting soil I bought at extra foods, not sure what you mean about heat?? (sorry for my ignorance) and I water it once a week with Schultz's liquid plant food 10-15-10.

 

Hoya carsona's are easy growers, but when it comes to flowering, they can be a little stubburn.
Leave the long leafless vines long, that's where the flowers will grow.

 

the penducles are little 'stems' that grow from the vine part and the end of it is where the buds form...which turn into flowers. you want to leave the penducles there - even if buds don't grow for a bit - because they will eventually start to form buds again at some point.

i wouldn't feed it at every watering and watering every week seems like too often - try every two weeks instead for watering and then fertilize every other watering. can you move it to a spot where it's getting a southern exposure? if you can, it should be located so it's not directly in the light - just off to the side so that it's getting bright light, just not directly on it (for an hour is okay, just not the whole time the sun is coming through the window).

asking about the heat was meant as to what is the heat in the room it's in? generally, they shouldn't be under 55 farenheit (they can deal with as low as 50 for short periods of time) and they generally do better when kept at temps over 65. sorry, don't know comparable temps in celsius.

and, lastly, NO apologies needed!!! everyone, at some point, is a newbie, so, not being familiar with terminology is to be expected :)