Full Name & Status: Hoya carnosa ‘Mauna Loa’ an Accepted and established name for a unique cultivar.
Category: Cobia, radiation Mutant, Legal Variety, Sport Mutation, ‘Exotica’ lineage, variegated carnosa
Trademark: LURA-LEI & LIVING-LEI
This was a specific Trademark by B.L.Cobia,Inc. for this cultivar. It expired in 2010.
This cultivar had not only one, but two trademarks all to itself according to Stephen H.Griffith, Director of Research at the time. All other Hoyas in the Compacta Group that were produced and sold by Cobia shared the Trademark HINDU ROPE.
Legal Status: A legal variety, expired. The patent established the cultivar.
B.L., Cobia. (1971). Milkweed Plant Family. Plant Pat. No.3,054. United States Patent Office.
B.L.Cobia. (1969).LURA-LEI. Registration No.722997387.United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Brief Description: A radiation induced sport of ‘Regalis’ which was then selected and propagated through successive vegetative cuttings. This beautiful cultivar is fully described in the patent. Deeply twisted vines displaying deep to medium green margins on the leaf blade and a range of yellows and green in the center of the leaf blade in the abaxial. the colors transfer through to the adaxial with light pubescence and darker green.