"Hawaiian" plumeria??

[rprimbs]

Last year at the Greenscene sale at Fullerton I bought some plumeria cuttings that a woman from Hawaii was selling. Most of the cuttings were $5 cuttings, but she also had more expensive $8+ "Hawaiian" plumeria cuttings. I bought both.

I guess that I should have asked her what the difference was. I can see a difference in the leafed out cuttings. The "Hawaiian" plumeria have darker leaves and seem to be smaller and more compact.

Is there a special type of plumeria that is referred to as "Hawaiian" plumeria?

[kahili]

No there isn't a "Hawaiian plumeria" , but there is a red plumeria that is commonly planted in all the graveyards in Hawaii (maybe not all-but a lot of graveyards) that is known as "graveyard red" and seeing as the "hawaiian" one that you bought from her is a red one (dark leaves) then thats the only thing that I can think of.

[tropicbreeze]

It's an interesting history of Frangipani in Hawaii. The plants were first introduced by the missionaries and planted around graveyards. They became associated with death and weren't popular with the locals. In the post WW2 period there was a boom in the tourism industry and some entrepreneurs decided it would be good to greet tourists with garlands of flowers. The Frangipani was the most suitable. With further increases in tourism there was a shortage of flowers and more were imported from Thailand. I wonder if they're labelled, "Made locally from imported goods", LOL. With the huge influx of people from the US it appears the death association has vanished.

[Palmlover]

Plumeria is pretty much the same. The Hawaiian plumeria is more money because they have better color variety. The colors of the flower along with size of the cuttings will determine the price. If it's a rare color the higher the price is.

[rprimbs]

No there isn't a "Hawaiian plumeria" , but there is a red plumeria that is commonly planted in all the graveyards in Hawaii (maybe not all-but a lot of graveyards) that is known as "graveyard red" and seeing as the "hawaiian" one that you bought from her is a red one (dark leaves) then thats the only thing that I can think of.

Yes this one is a red plumeria. Maybe that is it. I need to keep better track of the names.