Source for some hard to find Tropicals - Beyond Tiki

L lanikai Member Hawaii Joined: May 15, 2004 Posts: 490	L lanikai Posted posted on Wed, May 10, 2006 11:50 AM On 2006-05-10 06:57, Gigantalope wrote: (the page I've directed to shows a hard to find "Madagascar Palm" for example...which is actually a Plumaria) sorry. but Nope. It is most emphatically not "actually a Plumaria". Nor is is even a Plumeria. It is in the same family as plumeria. It is just slightly related to plumeria, but it doesn't even resemble a plumeria. Which we have here in proliferation, on Oahu, but this desert looking thing, the madagascar palm, we don't have except maybe one in a botanical garden. http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/24882/

On 2006-05-10 06:57, Gigantalope wrote:
(the page I've directed to shows a hard to find "Madagascar Palm" for example...which is actually a Plumaria)

sorry. but Nope.
It is most emphatically not "actually a Plumaria". Nor is is even a Plumeria.

It is in the same family as plumeria. It is just slightly related to plumeria, but it doesn't even resemble a plumeria.
Which we have here in proliferation, on Oahu, but this desert looking thing, the madagascar palm, we don't have except maybe one in a botanical garden.

http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/24882/

Post #231356 by lanikai on Wed, May 10, 2006 11:50 AM