Funastrum Species, White Twinevine

I have had a nice milkweed twine vine for a number of years, but never have had a single bloom. It looks healthy, perhaps it needs to be...Read More fertilized?

I mainly use it as a back up as food for my monarch caterpillars, so not so upset about the lack of flowers. I'd just like to know what I'm am not doing to encourage a bloom.

An important native wild Milkweed vine in Everglades National Park, esp. at Shark Valley. Host to Queen (& Monarch) butterflies. Likes to...Read More intertwine with other plants & shrubs bordering on wet areas & edges of tree islands, borrow pits. Aromatic flowers ~ delightful. Beetles, bugs, wasps, and bees always visiting. An essential addition to butterfly gardens where other Milkweeds struggle.

Have grown from cuttings, but slow to establish, bloom. Haven't tried seeds yet.

This plant looks somewhat like a Hoya. The flowers smell amazing! I actually have this plant. I aquired a cutting last summer. It root...Read Mores very easily. Mine is growing like crazy and looks really healthy but no flowers. I am starting to think it likes abuse. Should be happy at my house. A plant has to really want to live to make it around here.