Hoya — Rachel
Trace Rachel’s reported relationship to Rebecca while keeping open pollination and clone identity unresolved.
Trace Rachel’s reported relationship to Rebecca while keeping open pollination and clone identity unresolved.
Overview
Vermont Hoyas presents Rachel as a separately named seedling from the same seedpod as Rebecca. This profile examines that reported origin and the grower’s account. Its location beneath lacunosa reflects the reported seed-parent connection; it does not classify Rachel as a pure-species form.
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What We Know
- Reported origin: The Rachel account reproduces a message attributed to Antone Jones describing two different seedlings that he named Rachel and Rebecca. The message places the event at Spring Valley Tropicals in 2007 or 2008, with the year still to be checked.
- Parentage boundary: The message describes unassisted pollination on material labelled lacunosa Langkawi Island and proposes obscura as the other parent. The actual pollen parent remains unverified. The Rebecca account repeats the same communication, so it is not independent confirmation.
- Leaves, growth and flowering: The grower describes Rachel’s leaves as longer and narrower than Rebecca’s and reports rooting a cutting in June 2021, followed by flowering in February 2022. A hanging basket suited that plant better than a trellis. These are observations of one plant, without a controlled comparison.
- Using the name: Retain a plant’s received label and acquisition history. The reported sibling relationship does not make Rachel and Rebecca synonyms or authenticate every cutting carrying either name.
What We Are Still Learning
Can the original message and seed-batch history be verified?
What would help: The original Jones correspondence, dated nursery records and distribution records connecting the separately named seedlings.
What was the pollen parent?
What would help: A documented controlled cross or other appropriate parentage evidence tied to the original seed batch; a nearby flowering plant alone is insufficient.
Which living plants can be traced to Rachel?
What would help: An acquisition and propagation chain, original labels and dated flowering photographs of the same accession.
Are the reported shape and growth differences consistent?
What would help: Identified accessions compared through propagation cycles under recorded conditions; a formal naming publication would also help establish name status.
Common Misconceptions
- Two seedlings from one pod need not be one clone or interchangeable names.
- A proposed obscura parent is not a demonstrated controlled cross.
- One grower’s flowering interval or basket preference does not establish a care rule.
Research and Sources
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