Wednesday 3 September 2014
Plumeria is a genus of flowering
plants in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae. 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. Plumeria species may be propagated
easily from cuttings of leafless stem tips in spring. Source
