Frangipani/Plumeria #3 by goodoleboy
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Captured way back on 4/26/07, around 8 AM, about .3 mile/.483 km from my secluded sanctuary.
A supremely lovely flower, with soft white and yellow blends to enhance its distinctive fan blade petals.
A ZOOM will surely increase your viewing pleasure.
Plumeria (common name Frangipani; syn. Himatanthus Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.) is a small genus of 7-8 species native to tropical and subtropical Americas. The genus consists of mainly deciduous shrubs and trees. P. rubra (Common Frangipani, Red Frangipani), native to Mexico, Central America, Southern India and Venezuela, produces flowers ranging from yellow to pink depending on form or cultivar. From Mexico and Central America, Plumeria has spread to all tropical areas of the world, especially Hawaii, where it grows so abundantly that many people think that it is indigenous to that island system.
Source: Wikipedia encyclopedia
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Comments (14)
MrsRatbag
These are just gorgeous; I'll be they smelled wonderfully sweet! Nice collection of shots!
jocko500
so lovely looking. cool shots of them
THROBBE
Wish I had some of these growing in my garden! They are beautiful Harry!
babuci
We have it too. Wonderful and a scent is amazingly sweet. Gorgeous collage of the yellow/white kind. Hardly can wait till ours start to bloom, at a moment all bare and still 'sleeps'.
sleeping_tiger
Pretty!
morningglory
Gorgeous. I have one I grew from a cutting and one I grew from a seed....neither has bloomed yet. Maybe next year.
beachzz
You know i LOVE these- each and every one. And the smell is heavenly!!
odie
I can't remember having the chance to smell these flowers, but they look luscious! It is a lovely, exotic flower. Great shots, Harry - each and every one! Definitely fan blades!
danapommet
Outstanding collage Harry. Beautiful detail and textures. Dana
Biffowitz
If they were made of white chocolate, they would probably taste out of this world! Wonderful capture O'lboy, they look amazing, isn't Mother Nature great!!
cmolsen2002
How lovely! You helped me to remember that I picked a small spray of these every morning in Bali. The frangrance was heavy, tropical, sumptuous, and I can therefore verify that they also grow close to the Equator in Indonesia, and not just in the Americas!
myrrhluz
Beautiful! Great the way the petals seem to fold into the center. Lovely capture!
durleybeachbum
Such a gorgeous set!
anahata.c
another fine montage, which seems to alternate between closer shots and further shots (fewer & closer/to more & further), and you also seem to move from more saturated yellows to more white. It's a really pleasing montage. But even moreso are the flower shots themselves. I don't know how you got the textures & at the same time the almost plastic-like smoothness of the petals, but you did. They seem like fan blades indeed, they're so smooth & beautifully shaped. A beautiful grouping & beautiful individual shots, and so nice that you post these right alongside cars & planes & marchers & fogs, etc etc. Really tactile & touchable, they're almost like little slivers of candy. Beautiful work.