Plumeria

This Plumeria, seen in the garden shop today, is supposed to be very fragrant, but I didn’t get much fragrance when I leaned over to smell it. I looked it up on WikiPedia and found this out about the Plumeria:

Plumeria flowers are most fragrant at night in order to lure sphinx moths to pollinate them. The flowers have no nectar, 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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