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UnverifiedPSA #315
Colors
YellowPinkCoralRedOrange
Description
Australian cultivar #315 by Coral Coast. A 2.5-inch medium pink flower with heavily overlapping, rounded-tip petals, a large yellow-orange center with upturned inner edges, and dark pink bands on the reverse. Carries a spicy peppermint fragrance with average keeping quality and average tendency to fade. Leaves are elliptical, light green, ribbed with a red edge, acute tips, and dark red leaf borders. Growth is well-branched and compact with nuggety branches. An open-pollinated seedling of an unknown solid-red plumeria. Blooms have a glowing quality at sunset owing to their hot orange and pink shades.
Appearance
2.5-inch medium pink flowers with heavily overlapping rounded petals, a large yellow-orange center with upturned inner edges, and dark pink reverse bands; blooms 'glow' at sunset.
Fragrance
Distinctive spicy peppermint fragrance, strong and unique.
Growth & Foliage
Elliptical light green ribbed leaves with red edge and acute tips bordered in dark red; good branching, compact, nuggety branches.
Cultivation Tips
Average keeping quality with average tendency to fade.
Provenance
By Coral Coast (Oz #315); open-pollinated seedling of an unknown solid-red plumeria.
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Details
Parentage
Seedling of a solid unknown red plumeria
Growth Habit
medium
Species
P. rubra
Sets Seed
No
Source
Oz
PSA #
315
Size (in)
2.5
Fragrance Strength
peppermint, spicy peppermint
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Size2.5"
Fragrancepeppermint, spicy peppermint
Colors5
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