Does anyone know what this plant is called?
08-10-2016, 05:46 PM
#24
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It is called Dessert Rose, I just ordered two, In Texas they grow so pretty, but here in California, I had to order thru the mail. It is considered a tropical and does not need much water, but be careful in winter. You can find info. on care on the web and YouTube
08-11-2016, 03:43 PM
#26
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I too have a desert rose. I have never seen one that big. I love my little guy and he loves direct sun! I am sure it will not throw me a bloom this year, but next year he will.
Yours is pretty. I can't wait to see mine I'm bloom.
Yours is pretty. I can't wait to see mine I'm bloom.
08-11-2016, 06:58 PM
#27
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A friend gave me this plant several years ago. It was something she bought at Home Depot and was a small little plant. It has grown into this big plant and it has these really pretty flowers. I bring it inside in the winter and it drops its leaves and kind of goes dormant. I still water it some and have it where it can see the morning sun. No one I know seems to know what it is. I don't normally have a green thumb but this plant has flourished in spite of me!
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08-12-2016, 06:05 PM
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It's definitely not a plumeria, I have them growing all over the place here in FL. The flowers especially are wrong, they come on a spike at the end of the branch. Neighbors have some 6-7 feet tall. Then the spike blooms for a couple of weeks, flower after flower. I'll ask my neighbor, she has he own landscape business. Here's one of our plants. You can see the spike, then all the blooms on it. This was near the end, probably had 50 flowers on it. We have pink, yellow and fuschia.
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11-11-2016, 07:24 PM
#29
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Sounds like, due to winter dormancy, a plumeria. Also, branches like a plumeria also. Hawaiian lieu is made of the plumeria, and they smell heavenly. However, it is hard to be sure due to the flowers, for in your picture they are not sharply captured.
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11-13-2016, 04:38 AM
#30
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It is a desert rose. From what I am reading be careful of the sap.
http://tipsplants.com/community/pois...um-desert-rose
http://tipsplants.com/community/pois...um-desert-rose
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