Description
Like our other rare puditusa hybrids our new hybrid Linda Ross is a very beautiful small upright growing evergreen frangipani with big flowers and excellent perfume and glossy dark green foliage which are cold tolerant and rust resistant.
Puditusa Linda Ross has the biggest and most colorful puditusa flowers.
Flowers are pure mid pink with red eye which slowly fade to white.
Flowers are held in tight bunches.
The underside of the foliage is often tinged with purple. Upright growing to 2. 5m tall x 1. 5m wide.
Excellent for western facing wall summer screens in cooler climates as it may not stay evergreen in cooler climes. Ideal for pots.
Named in honor of Linda Ross, well known television and radio gardening celebrity and Landscape Architect. Co author of the book ‘Frangipani’ . A self confessed ”frangipaniphile’.
Limited release.
About Plumeria “Puditusa” Evergreens
– a new hybrid range of frangipanis aptly named Plumeria puditusa (Plumeria obtusa X Plumeria pudica).
These new “Puditusa” hybrids are the future of world class frangipani breeding.
The foliage of the puditusas have the thick dark green glossy and prominently veined foliage features of P.obtusa with the spoon shaped leaves of P.pudica.
The plant shape is more compact and neater than P.pudica, growing into a beautiful ball shaped plant to 2 m max. The flowers are highly perfumed.
