Here are some pictures of what's blooming now.
This one is Fiesta Rainbow:
A few blooms...
Another pic of Fiesta Rainbow:
One more of Fiesta Rainbow:
This is an unnamed yellow with six petals and a strong fragrance:
Another unnamed one with long spider petals and a peachy fragrance:
This one is Tahitian Sunset. The colors are bright when the flower first opens.
This one is called Cancun Dreams:
This is an unnamed white with an unusual fragrance. I can't quite put my finger on what it smells like, but it is a different fragrance altogether. I like it!
This one isn't a plumeria but is an adenium, which are closely related to plumerias. It is one of my adenium seedlings:
Here's a wide shot of the seedling:
This adenium is called Noble Concubine:
I looked up an adenium and found it was a "Desert Rose"! Surprise, surprise!!!!! I have one several years old that I never changed out of it's little pot. It only has about 3 limbs, a huge butt, and it blooms off and on all year. If it's kin to the Plumeria, can you root it like you do a Plumie? The lady across the street has one that looks like a tree and I'm sure she would give me a cutting.
Pati
Woops. forgot to say how beautiful your blossoms are!
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Clare your babies are taking my breath away.........GORGEOUS!!!
Thanks, Pati. Yes, cuttings root easily in warm water. Cut a branch and let the end heal over and callous like you would do with a plumie branch. A few days should be sufficient. Then dip it in rooting hormone and plant in a well-draining medium. Cuttings take a few years to get a fat body, but one will develop in time.
Thanks, Lilypon!
Fiesta Rainbow is so beautiful. Never seen before.
Kaleem
Thanks, Kaleem. It may be the same as Puu Kahea or a seedling of Puu Kahea. I'm trying to determine which:-)
Clare_CA, thanks for the info. My TW Plumie that Brad sent me is just bursting out with leaves, I'm so proud of it! My Singapore is HUGE ........sideways. LOL We're going to get big rain and heavy duty wind as this storm sideswipes us, so they are coming in the house with me, along with my two biggest hanging cane Begonias. They will go in the shower where they'll feel right at home. That's where they spent so much time last year. LOL
Pati
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Stay safe, Pati. I hope this one dissipates before it reaches land.
Oh clare, I had my Singapore sitting in the horseshoe pit which has a special kind of hard packed clay. When I tried to lift it, the roots had grown out of the bottom of the pot and into the clay! I pulled it loose, but I don't know if I have hurt it or not. I know now it has to go into the ground as soon as this storm gets by. It seems to have liked the clay because it's growing so big!
Pati
Pati, you haven't hurt it. The roots will grow back. I break roots all the time when I transplant. They always grow back. Singapore is a big one. I got a Dwarf Singapore White from Florida Colors, and I think that will stay fairly small -- under five feet.
WHEW! Thanks Clare.
Pati
A couple more...
This is King Kalakaua, which is also known as "Minature White" because the blooms are tiny (only one inch across):
Tahitian Sunset:
I like the long spidery petals on this unnamed one:
A few more from today. Here is Tahitian Sunset again:
King Kalakaua:
Fiesta Rainbow:
An unnamed yellow:
An unnamed white:
Clare~
Beautiful blossoms. Sunshine must have trouble getting through all of them in order to reach the soil.
Brad
Thanks, Brad! There is plenty of sunshine to go around;-) LOL!
Here is a fantastic fragrance: Kauka Wilder that I got from Pooba (Darin) on eBay just a few months ago. It is a just-rooted cutting.
Clare, all these pictures are just lovely. I can only dream how wonderful your yard must be with all these wonderful blooms.
Linda
Thanks, Linda!
I have to admit that I only have five or six blooming right now. Most of my plants are just rooted or rooting cuttings, or they are seedlings. I have a few that I've grown for a few years, and those are flowering, and I do have a couple of cuttings flowering while they are rooting. I hope to have a lot more flowers blooming at once in the years to come.
This is Kauka Wilder today:
Clare, your plumeria's are absolutely beautiful! Our delightful friend Brad sent me cutting off his Teresa Wilder and 2 white ones which I've potted and am babying like *crazy*. I've gone nuts for plumeria!
Now, I don't have pictures (no camera that works with my computer, no pictures), but my &16.99 Home Depot plumeria is blooming at present and it has white blooms with yellow centers, and the undersides of the petals have a pink edge to them...Does this sound like any plumeria that you can identify? It was marked generic "Plumeria rubra", but the white blooms seem to make it *not* rubra....Any ideas?
I haven't been around for a while, and it's good to be back!
Hi Liila, Glad you are back!
Plumeria rubra is the correct genus and species of your plumeria. Most of the plumerias today are classified as Plumeria rubra. Someone somewhere (here at PlantFiles) thought it was the genus and species for only red plumerias. This is an error and one I've tried to get corrected in the PlantFiles section. The next common genus and species is Plumeria obtusa, which has rounded dark green leaves which are evergreen and easily recognizable.
It sounds like you got yourself a common white. The fact that it isn't a named and registered cultivar doesn't make it any less beautiful. I have several myself, as a matter of fact, that I bought from Home Depots and local nurseries around here, and they are great bloomers with a great fragrance.
Here is one of my unnamed below, which is also a common white with a yellow center and a faint pink stripe on the back.
