Ricky, that's a very cool plant and it has a pretty flower. Are you able to smell that one bloom? Does it smell nice?

Carol in Jacksonville

Ricky, I love when is the first time that I get flowers in a plant. Your bloom is beautiful and I am sure it was a nice surprise!

Silvia

Carol - the flower is 9' up in the air. I'm going to get out a ladder this morning.

Cant tell from the photo - is it a vine, a shrub?

It's a very large shrub, almost a tree. It's growing next to and through a Yucca. Overall, it's about 18' tall and multi-trunked.

Ricky, I had to laugh when I thought about you getting out a 6', 8' (10'?) ladder to smell a flower. That is something I would do! We need a report. And did you pick it or leave it?

Carol

Carol - they had very little fragrance. There were 4 flowers, once I got up there, and I left them all. They lasted a couple of days and then turned yellow, shriveling and blowing away in the wind.

I love pua keni keni! The fragrance is incredible! I remember well; there was a tree of it at the resort I volunteered at on the Big Island of Hawaii. But you say yours doesnt have much of a fragrance. I've noticed that here in Florida the plumerias aren't as fragrant as the ones in Hawaii. In Hawaii they scent the air, here you have to go up to the trees and stick your nose in the blossom to smell them. Maybe it's the same situation with the pua keni keni?