Pink and Yellow Plumeria
by Brian Harig
Title
Pink and Yellow Plumeria
Artist
Brian Harig
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Photograph - Photograph
Description
A Pink and Yellow Plumeria on Kauai, Hawaii
Plumeria (common name Frangipani) is a genus of flowering plants in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae. It contains seven or eight species of mainly deciduous shrubs and small trees. They are native to Central America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America as far south as Brazil but have been spread throughout the world's tropics.
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.
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September 7th, 2011
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