Bridal Boquet

Flroida's Agricultural Extension Service (IFAS) has a 2 page pdf factsheet on Plumaria pudica, how to grow it, and its useful traits. There are several nice color photos, too. This species of Plumeria is unusual because of the fiddle-shaped leaves and because the flowers, while beautiful, lack the typical strong, sweet Plumeria perfume.

Plumeria pudica Jacq. Sel. Stirp. Am. 37. 1763
Plumeria caracasana J. R. Johnston, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 108. 1908. Plumeria cochleata Blake, Contr. Gray Herb. 53: 47, 1918.
Small tree or shrub, 2-3 m. tall; leaves delicately membranaceous, obovate-oblong, more or less cochleate or pandurate, 7-30 cm. long, 3-15 cm. broad, obtuse to shortly acuminate, obtusely to acutely cuneate at the base, essentially glabrous above, more or less pilose to essentially glabrate beneath, the petioles scarcely manifest; inflorescence congested and subumbellate, the secondary peduncles scarcely manifest, bearing several showy yellowish-white flowers; pedicels 8-12.5 mm. long; calyx-lobes deltoid-subquadrate, rounded to truncate, 1.52.5 mm. long; corolla subinfundibuliform, the tube 15-25 mm. long, about 2 mm. in diameter at the base, gradually dilated above the insertion of the stamens to an orifice about 4 mm. in diameter, the lobes obovate to obovate-oblong, 20-35 mm. long, about halfconvolute in the bud, longitudinal in aestivation or scarcely spiral; follicles 15-17 cm. long, about 2 cm. broad.
Type LOCAiyiTv: Gardens, Curasao.
Distribution: Martinique (possibly introduced); also in Colombia and Venezuela.

Plumeria pudica is a species of the genus Plumeria (Apocynaceae), native to Panama, Colombia and Venezuela. This profuse bloomer has leaves in the shape of a cobra's hood, and its flowers are white with a yellow center.