Pixie Krinkle
A historical miniature Krinkle 8-like selection, documented through a partial transfer history and qualitative descriptions.
Historical miniature habit and partial transfer history, with clear limits on origin, current labels and survival claims.
Overview
Hoya carnosa Pixie Krinkle is a historical cultivated selection described as a miniature Krinkle 8-like plant. Burton’s 2006 account records how she received her plant, while a later compilation repeats the smaller-plant comparison. Neither source establishes the originator, the original cultivar naming publication or its date. This profile separates the reported miniature habit from claims about genetic origin, modern labelled plants and present availability. A small Krinkle 8-like plant is not authenticated as Pixie Krinkle by appearance alone.
Related profiles: Krinkle 8 · Little Leaf
Photo Gallery
No identity-, rights-, and profile-reviewed photographs are available yet.
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
- Burton’s 2006 entry describes Pixie Krinkle as a true miniature version of Krinkle 8. It supplies no leaf dimensions, mature plant measurements or comparison conditions. This is a historical grower description, not a numerical size standard or proof that every later plant carrying the name remains miniature.
- Burton says she received her plant from Stu Cramer, who reportedly obtained it from Glasshouse Works. That is a partial, attributed transfer history. Burton expressly says she does not know its source, so the account does not establish that Cramer or the nursery originated, named or introduced the selection.
- Her statement that she believed the nursery no longer had it describes her understanding at the time. It does not establish present availability, survival or loss. Finding an old catalogue or a traceable living propagation line would help resolve those separate questions.
- Hatch’s later compilation also characterizes Pixie Krinkle as a miniature Krinkle 8-type plant on a smaller scale. The entry gives no accession or propagation history. Its copyright years, 2014 and 2015, do not establish when the cultivar was first named.
- Green and Kloppenburg’s 2006 compilation places Pixie Krinkle in a carnosa mutant list assembled from catalogs and correspondence. The heading records their classification; it does not supply experimental evidence of a mutation or identify the parent plant. A miniature appearance alone cannot establish genetic origin.
- Burton distinguishes Pixie Krinkle from Little Leaf: she calls Pixie Krinkle a miniature but explicitly says Little Leaf is not one. The comparison does not make either plant a synonym of Krinkle 8. Modern labels and photographs need their own provenance before they can be connected to the historical selection.
What We Are Still Learning
Who first named or introduced Pixie Krinkle, and when?
What would help: The original dated description, catalogue or correspondence, including its complete passage and imprint. Distinguish the originator, the person who named it and later distributors.
Can the reported transfer history be documented?
What would help: Original labels, dated nursery records, correspondence or propagation records connecting the plant received by Burton with earlier and later material. Preserve gaps and exact labels.
What does miniature mean in traceable living material?
What would help: Leaf and mature plant measurements across age and repeated propagation, with growing conditions and documented comparison plants. Include leaf and flower photographs of the same accession.
Can an authenticated living plant and reusable photographs be found?
What would help: A documented propagation line and original photographs with creator credit and explicit display permission or a verifiable reuse license. Small size, a selling label or absence from a search does not establish identity or loss.
Common Misconceptions
- The description miniature does not supply a measured size limit or prove stable dwarf growth in every later plant.
- The reported nursery and grower transfer chain does not identify the originator or the first naming date.
- A historical comment about one nursery’s stock is not proof that Pixie Krinkle is now lost.
- A mutant-list heading is not experimental proof of a mutation or parentage.
- Pixie Krinkle, Little Leaf and Krinkle 8 are not interchangeable names.
- Pixie used alone, miniature sales wording or a similar photograph cannot authenticate the historical selection.