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Plumeria alba
White frangipani has beautiful white flowers with yellow centers, and the flower looks fully opened. Frangipani is well-known for its intensely fragrant, lovely, spiral-shaped blooms which appear at branch tips. The 20-inch-long, coarse, deciduous leaves are clustered only at the tips of the rough, blunt, sausage-like, thick, grey-green branches. A milky sap is exuded from the branches when they are bruised or punctured. Flowering: June-November. Plumeria flowers are most fragrant at night in order to lure sphinx moths to pollinate them. The flowers have no nectar, however, and simply dupe their pollinators. The moths inadvertently pollinate them by transferring pollen from flower to flower in their fruitless search for nectar
Nothing evokes that tropical feeling quite like the frangipani.
Spotted on Jul 29, 2012
Submitted on Jan 20, 2013
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