# Name this house plant... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 27, 2007, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-house-plant/413412 "2007-07-27T19:19:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-house-plant/413412/1 "2007-07-27T19:19:36Z")
My GF’s mother has this plant growing in her kitchen. It’s a hanging vine thing and has dark green plastic-like leaves. The most remarkable thing is the flowers. It bursts out in little white five pointed flowers with little diamond-shaped petals. Inside the first set of five petals, is another set that are turned to just counter the first. That is to say, the points of the inner petals exactly line up with the gaps in the outer set. Inside that is a little yellow dot. The flowers are waxy and tough. They look just perfect, just like plastic flowers stamped from a machine. I joke this is the only plastic plant I know that grows. Anybody know what it may be? ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-house-plant/413412/2 "2007-07-27T19:47:11Z")
Audrey Junior ---
**Author:** ![Monstera\_deliciosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monstera_deliciosa/32/109_2.png) [@Monstera\_deliciosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstera_deliciosa)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-house-plant/413412/3 "2007-07-27T19:53:59Z")
How about Hoya multiflora ‘Shooting Star’? > **[Hoya multiflora, Shooting Stars](http://www.rareflora.com/hoyamult.htm)** > > Hoya multiflora, Shooting Stars for sale. If not that particular one, I’d still suggest some other variety of Hoya. [http://www.hoyaplants.com/hoyaplants.htm](http://www.hoyaplants.com/hoyaplants.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-house-plant/413412/4 "2007-07-27T19:56:34Z")
That there would be a [hoya](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.californiagardens.com/images/Hoya_carnosa_c.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.californiagardens.com/Plant_Pages/hoya_carnosa.htm&h=480&w=640&sz=52&hl=en&start=20&tbnid=ycP6VIrHEEuqGM:&tbnh=103&tbnw=137&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhoya%26start%3D20%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN), unmistakably. I have some cuttings growing, can’t wait till they bloom. ---
**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-house-plant/413412/5 "2007-07-27T20:12:39Z")
Yup - that’s it. Thanks all. I’ll make a few points and let her know. Cuttings, huh? Maybe I can get some her. Like a spider plant? Just clip it at a joint, drop it in water and wait for the roots to appear? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-house-plant/413412/6 "2007-07-27T20:52:49Z")
Beatrice. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-house-plant/413412/7 "2007-07-27T21:48:42Z")
Hoyas are succulents, so rooting in water probably isn’t the optimal way to do it. Take stem cuttings a few inches long, remove leaves from the bottom inch or so and let the cutting dry out for an hour or two. Then insert the lower part of the stem into moist but not soggy potting mix, cover with a clear plastic bag and keep in bright light (not sun) until new growth is under way, then gradually open and remove the bag over a couple of days. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-house-plant/413412/8 "2007-07-28T02:13:23Z")
In case anybody was wondering on the name. It was from Little Shop of Horrors. ---
**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2007, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-house-plant/413412/9 "2007-07-28T06:16:08Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord] In case anybody was wondering on the name. It was from Little Shop of Horrors. [/QUOTE] I, for one, was right up there with you. Feed Me! Feed me all night long… I feel so dirty right now. Like I’ve been dipped in potting soil ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2007, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-house-plant/413412/10 "2007-07-30T20:46:34Z")
[QUOTE=Jackmannii] Hoyas are succulents, so rooting in water probably isn’t the optimal way to do it. Take stem cuttings a few inches long, remove leaves from the bottom inch or so and let the cutting dry out for an hour or two. Then insert the lower part of the stem into moist but not soggy potting mix, cover with a clear plastic bag and keep in bright light (not sun) until new growth is under way, then gradually open and remove the bag over a couple of days. [/QUOTE] That’s pretty much how I did it. I used a rooting hormone, too. I didn’t know what the success rate would be, so I cut up a long vine into twelve cuttings. Good thing I did - only two of them took.