Tropicals & Tender Perennials: This looks like a plumeria, can anyone ID?, 1 by JPlunket

JPlunket wrote:
Some photos of p. alba match well, others don't.

The leaf nodes on mine are much more closely than those on ClareCA's nice shots in PlantFiles. But she certainly provided MUCH better growing conditions than I have --and presumably more friendly than those mine found in its niche on a rock point right on the Caribbean, sprayed with salt by trade winds and dried by 18 degree N latitude sun.

Clare's shot of alba's leaf aside various other plumeria leaves makes me think mine's alba.

So, perhaps my find is not rare, but I'll raise her as a Caribbean native "pioneer", with a personal story.

Picture's attached were taken on the beach where I found her. First is not the same rock point, but one at the other end of the same beach. The "soil" is what collects on a bubbly, glassine lava with edges so sharp you could slice off a toe if you tried to run. Second is from back in the sea grape grove at the dune line.

Wish I were there right now...it's freezing here in Washington DC!!

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