P. Kukulcan Florida Colors

Nursery Mayan for feathered serpent god. Obtusa specimen collected in the Northern Yucatan in 2005. It produces inflos about a foot in length straight up with flowers all the way to the top. That is about a foot full of flowers. The tallest inflorescence we have ever seen on a plumeria. The white flowers have a slight jasmine-like scent. The inflorescences are over a foot tall with multiple branching. A nice fragrance. The early Spanish in Mesoamerica called these decorative plums of feathers 'Plumeria' meaning feather art. Plumeria was also the name given to the ornate feather art on the Mayan warrior shields and to the Mayan feather mosaics. The original plant was planted outside a fence in a row of white flowered species. The first winter in the ground, Kukulkan did not loose a single leaf. It was immediately relocated behind a fence with barb wire and more. Really shows how tall the stem is and the multiple branching in the inflo. Mike Ferrero from Australia has visited about every species of Plumeria plants in the wild of Cuba, Venezuela and few other islands. He feels that it is a new Plumeria species never described before. Except perhaps as illustrated on some pre-columbian Mayan scrolls. The Mayan Princes routinely carried flower bouquets in public - it was expected whenever they were in the presence of a Chief they should have this bouquet. If was known that royal gardens included plumeria and plumeria was used in personal decoration, medicine and ceremonies. None of the Europeans documented this species in spite of some pretty ambitious efforts bankrolled by the King of Spain to make sketches and describe the plants of