Hoya pubicalyx — Dapple Gray
A profile of the Dapple Gray descriptions and attributed seedling history, preserving unresolved spelling and material questions.
Published characters and a reported seedling history provide a useful bounded identity profile without inventing a care difference.
Overview
Dapple Gray is a historical cultivated name whose identity needs care. The 1992 Hoya Handbook describes leaves marked with silver, pink and grey blotches, and rose-wine flowers with pale hairs. Burton’s 2006 account attributes the name to McDonald’s seedlings but also describes conflicting identifications. Its original parents and continuity to living plants are unresolved; the separate spelling Dapple Grey is not automatically merged.
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What We Know
- The 1992 Handbook describes Dapple Gray with silver and pink leaf markings, gray blotches and rose-wine flowers. These are observations of the source’s named material.
- Burton’s 2006 account includes Dapple Gray among plants attributed to McDonald’s seedlings, whose parents were reported as unknown.
- The separate Dapple Grey spelling remains a separate documentary record. Similar spelling or foliage does not establish that all labelled plants share one clone.
- The Handbook reports fragrance and heavy flowering in its named material. Burton separately questions species placement because records under the name conflicted; these accounts do not establish a distinct care regime.
What We Are Still Learning
How do original Dapple Gray records relate to plants sold under Gray and Grey spellings?
What would help: Original publications, labels, accession records and documented propagation chains.
Do traceable plants support a distinct growing recommendation?
What would help: Repeated observations on identified material with dates, conditions and suitable comparisons.
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