Hummel’s Krinkle Kurl
A historical green, tightly curled selection, kept separate from the broader use of Krinkle Kurl for Compacta.
The historical Hummel selection is treated separately from broader Krinkle Kurl labels. Its earliest naming publication and survival remain unresolved.
Overview
Hummel’s Krinkle Kurl is a historical green selection described with tightly recoiled leaves and reportedly white flowers. Conroy’s 2022 history distinguishes it from regular Compacta. The exact date when its cultivar name was first established remains unresolved here: the article identifies it separately in a 1965/66 Hummel catalog, but marks the dating of earlier Graf descriptions as uncertain. A plant labelled simply Krinkle Kurl today may reflect the broader use of that name for Compacta. A surviving plant with a documented connection to Hummel’s selection has not been verified in the sources examined.
Related profiles: Compacta · Krinkle 8 · Regalis (Compacta) · Marginalis (Compacta)
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Evidence-Based Growing Insights
No form-specific care conclusion has passed review. The parent Hoya page remains the source for shared information; generic advice is not repeated here.
What We Know
- Conroy (2022) reports a separate Hummel selection with more tightly curled foliage. Her account relays Graf’s description of green leaves that fold and recoil, with white flowers (pp.32,39).
- The 2022 article reproduces a catalog page labelled Fall 1965 and Spring 1966, with separate Compacta and Hummel’s Krinkle Kurl entries (p.34, Figure8). This supports historical use of the name. It does not settle the first establishment date. The article’s earlier Graf dates are expressly uncertain.
- Conroy (2022) cautions that Krinkle Kurl was also used for other Compacta material and that Hummel’s original selection may be lost (p.39). That is an unresolved possibility, rather than a confirmed extinction.
- The registrar’s Marginalis account still distinguishes Hummel’s Krinkle Kurl from Compacta and compares its tight growth with Regalis. This is a published comparison, not an authentication of a living accession.
- NParks’ plant record describes a compact, contorted-leaf vine under the shorter name Krinkle Kurl, with a pink corolla and white, red-tinged corona. The white centre is not a report of an entirely white flower. The record supplies no propagation history tying its plant to Hummel’s original selection.
- The different flower reports should remain attached to their sources. They do not establish that a plant is authentic or misidentified from flower colour alone. Historical labels, propagation records and comparisons of traceable plants are needed to resolve the name’s different applications.
- No controlled growing comparison specific to authenticated Hummel’s Krinkle Kurl was found in the sources reviewed. General Compacta advice and observations of plants bearing a broad trade label cannot establish a separate light, watering or flowering requirement for this historical selection.
What We Are Still Learning
When was Hummel’s Krinkle Kurl first established as a cultivar name?
What would help: The exact early Graf edition, title and publication date, its description and illustration, and earlier dated Hummel catalogs. A nursery offering alone does not settle the naming assessment.
Does a documented living line of Hummel’s original selection survive?
What would help: Original nursery labels, dated acquisition and propagation records, and photographs of the same traceable accession in leaf and flower.
Which features consistently distinguish it from regular Compacta?
What would help: Side-by-side observations of separately traceable plants, recording leaf folding, stem intervals and flowers under comparable conditions.
Can you contribute a photograph linked to a documented Hummel accession?
What would help: An original leaf or flower photograph, its plant history, creator credit and explicit display permission or a verifiable reuse license.
Common Misconceptions
- The 1965/66 catalog occurrence does not establish that the cultivar name was first established in 1965.
- Krinkle Kurl on a modern label does not authenticate Hummel’s historical selection.
- Tighter curls or white flowers alone do not prove a shared propagation history.
- The possibility that the original selection is lost is not a confirmed finding.
- Krinkle 8 is a different named plant; it should not be substituted for Krinkle Kurl.