Plumeria Inflow
by Deborah Benoit
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Plumeria Inflow
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Deborah Benoit
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Photograph - Original Photography By Deborah Benoit
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This is my Plumeria, notice how the flowers change colors as they are starting to die. This was taken in Port Orange, Florida.
Plumeria trees flower from early summer to fall. Their blossoms grow in clusters on ends of the stems, they are made of tubular corolla with a length of 2–4 inches (5.1–10.2 cm) that split sharply into five rounded and waxy petals that overlap each other. These flowers come in many colours including pink, red, white,and yellow, orange, or pastel. They have separate anthers.
The flowers are highly fragrant especially at night, their scent is perceived to have smells from some flowers like jasmine, citrus, and gardenia. However, they yield no nectar. Their scent tricks sphinx moths into pollinating them by transferring pollen from flower to flower in their fruitless search for nectar.
Insects or human pollination can help create new varieties of plumeria. Plumeria trees from cross-pollinated seeds may show characteristics of the mother tree or their flowers might just have a distinct appearance.
Its fruit separate into two follicles with winged seeds.
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May 21st, 2023
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Ginette Callaway
Such a wonderful close up Deborah. Do plumerias have a sweet fragrance? They look like they would.
Deborah Benoit replied:
Thank you Ginette! Yes they do have a sweet fragrance and each plant is different in what their fragrance is.
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