I have this plant with small purple berries and I don't know what it is. I thought it was some type of Hoya because it bloome tine star shaped flower a year ago. Now it has berries. I am confused. Please see pics.
no, it's not a hoya. i kind of want to say it's a coffee plant - the reddish tone of the new growth doesn't seem right though. it's very nice, whatever it is. and you're obviously doing right by it - it's nice and healthy!
Thank you. The leaves of a coffee plant is smaller and different texture. This looks more like mango, but mango does not blossom star shaped flowers or berries.
When it did bloom the flower look like that of a Shooting Star Hoya. http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/155290/
That's a ditch weed here, but I'm not sure what it is. Definitely not a hoya, though. Look at your new foliage - red is not a normal colour for new hoya foliage.
This is a very long shot. It reminds me (and I have only seen them as trees, in South Africa) of Milkwood Do the berries, when crushed, smell of saucisson? Milkwood's do!!!
it COULD be the hoya multiflora!! lorax, there are some hoya that have reddish tones for new growth. there's even a hoya with purple leaves!
Apart from different leaves that one also seems to have them paired (joining the stem at the same place), as do the common hoya species. Also pictures show it with bunches of multiple flowers, perhaps with a different stem structure. Do hoyas produce black, berrylike fruits?
It reminds me of Cleyera sp. http://www.fantasticplants.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/x Cleyera a.jpg http://www.smgrowers.com/products/plants/plantdisplay.asp?plant_id=3152 HTH Chris
joclyn, I agree. I think it is a Hoya Multiflora. That is the closest match I have come across so far.
Lorax, I'll say one thing, it does grow like a weed. I have had it for over a year and repotted it twice already and it is due for repotting again.
If it is the same thing we have in our ditches, yours is actually growing a bit slower. The county clears the ditches and gutters along the highway once a month, and I mean they raze it back to stubble and let sheep graze what's left. This plant will tangle it back in in the space of two weeks. From chomped-on stubble. And saying that something is a tropical plant is like saying that you have a winged bird. Most things grow here.
yes, hoya can produce berries/seed pods. it's not a very common occurance though when they're grown indoors.
Lorax: Well, being in Canada where it is so cold for 7-9 months of the year, not everything grows here.
Hoya has opposite leaves; this mystery plant has alternate leaves. Sorry, don't know what it is, but it isn't a Hoya.
I have to agree, it doesn't look like a hoya. I have H. multiflora and the leaves look different to me.I have not seen any berries. The flower on a multiflora look like shooting stars, or what I think look like little rocket ships (white and yellow w/ purple center)
Looks like a Phytolacca. The deep purple berries give it away. Some weedy tropical perennial species other than P. americana. The fruit of Hoya are paired follicles (like a milkweed) not a rounded berry.
