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Colors
YellowPurple
Description
This entry encompasses multiple related cultivars. Soi Phet produces 2.5 to 3-inch rounded pink to white flowers with strong orange veining from center and sweet fragrance. Soi Sai Djai yields 3-inch white blooms with red and yellow, featuring overlapping broad petals, large yellow area, red margins, and orange base with fresh, sweet fragrance. Deep yellow to cream-yellow flowers with orange and deeper yellow and red striations produce large flower-heads. General characteristics include compact growth and well-branching habit.
Appearance
Soi Phet: 2.5 to 3 inches, rounded pink to white with strong orange veining from center. Soi Sai Djai: 3 inches, white with red and yellow; overlapping broad petals, large yellow area, red margins, orange base.
Bloom
Large flower-heads.
Fragrance
Soi Phet: nicely sweet fragrance. Soi Sai Djai: fresh and sweet fragrance, medium intensity. General: medium intensity, pleasantly sweet.
Growth & Foliage
Compact and well-branching habit.
Cultivation Tips
Sets seed.
Provenance
Soi Phet possibly 4646. Mistakenly sold as Aztec Gold by Frangipani Addiction. Also documented as Sobriety (Erv's Sobriety).
Also Known As
Pavlova Passionaka
Details
Species
P. rubra
Sets Seed
No
Anecdotal Notes
Diana
Mistakenly sold as Aztec Gold by Frangipani Addiction Sobriety Erv's Sobriety. He played with the genes and got a purple plumeria. Soi Phet possibly 4646. 2 ½-3” rounded pink to white with strong orange veining from center. The fragrance is nicely sweet. Large flower-heads. Compact and well branching.
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