Tropicals & Tender Perennials: My 1st plumeria...what is it?, 1 by Clare_CA

Clare_CA wrote:
Hi Soozer, yes, I saw a flash of pink, and that had me wondering. Does it smell like fresh peaches? Aztec Gold smells like fresh peaches, but I don't think it has any pink in it.

Sure, they do trade unknowns/unnamed. There are some stunning unnamed ones out there that are even more gorgeous than the named varieties. I think many folks are just starting out growing them and don't have much to cut to trade with. It takes several years for a cutting to get to tree size and a few years more to get to the point where you want to prune.

If your cutting was taken from her tree, yours will look identical to her tree. Plumerias are called seedlings when they are hybrids and before they are named even if they are very old. For example, this flower below is one of mine unknowns, and it is probably a seedling of Celadine. We know that it is not Celadine because the flower size is too small.

I would take your neighbor at work up on her kind offer if you can:-) Lavender/purple plumerias really don't exist here yet, but new hybrids are coming in from Thailand now which show a great deal of promise. Some reds and pinks fade to a nice lavender color. That's really cute of you peeking over the fence:-)

This message was edited Aug 25, 2005 9:33 PM