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kidvidio
Sep 18, 2009, 12:44 PM
Hi everyone and thank you in advance for helping me determine the name of this houseplant. I have had the plant many years and it does NOT flower. It is a type of vine with leaves and new shoots growing off the vine. The leaves are thick and waxy and some are mottled with white spots and some are not. Please check out my pictures. Hope someone can help me!

KUXJ
Sep 18, 2009, 01:06 PM
Hi! kidvidio, and welcome to AMHD :)


What you have there is a Wax Plant, and with the right conditions it will flower:

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:AAImOFhmk0_sEM:http://www.puyallup.wsu.edu/Hort/Hort332/images/plantlist/wax%2520plant.jpg

Care
Wax Plant (Hoya) Production Guide (http://mrec.ifas.ufl.edu/foliage/folnotes/waxplant.htm)

These two for more information:
Wax-plant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax-plant)

PlantFiles: Detailed information on Hoya, Wax Plant, Porcelain Flower Hoya carnosa (http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/432/)

Images:
wax plant - Google Images (http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1C1CHMI_enUS335US335&um=1&newwindow=1&q=wax+plant&sa=N&start=0&ndsp=20)


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kidvidio
Sep 19, 2009, 05:34 AM
Thank you so much KUXJ for your answer and the links. Now I will know how to care for it properly and hopefully it will bloom for me!!

Regards Kidvidio

KUXJ
Sep 19, 2009, 10:02 AM
Your welcome.