grassroots Horticulture : plumeria

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Taxonomy_______________________________

The five subfamilies in the dogbane family are:

Apocynoideae
Asclepiadoideae
Periplocoideae
Rauvolfioideae
Secamonoideae

Apocynoideae____________________________

Mandevilla

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Oleander, Nerium oleander

Oleander, Nerium oleander

Oleander, Nerium oleander

Oleander, Nerium oleander

Asclepiadoideae____________________________

FWBG, BRIT, Fort Worth, Texas Photograph: Jeanette Hyden

Green Milkweed, Antelope horn milkweed (Asclepias viridis)

FWBG, BRIT, Fort Worth, Texas Photograph: Jeanette Hyden

Green Milkweed, Antelope horn milkweed (Asclepias viridis)

A silky, hair-like structure assists in dispersing the seeds

when the pods break open.

The most common methods of seed dispersal for plants are wind, water, animals, explosion and fire. When the milkweed follicle breaks open the seeds are transported by the wind as the breeze blows the hairlike comas to more distant locations.

The Milkweed flower is called an umbellate cymes

The milkweed seedpod is known as a follicle

The seeds, each with long, white flossy hairs (coma), occur in the follicle seedpod and are dispersed after the pod breaks open and the wind carries the seed away.

Rauvolfioideae_______________________________

Vinca

Variegated Common Periwinkle (Vinca minor 'Variegata')

Amsonia

Blue Star flower buds (Amsonia)

Plumeria

Frangipani (Plumeria)

Taxonomy___________________________________________________________

Linnaeus 1735	Haeckel 1866	Chatton 1925	Copeland 1938	Whittaker 1969	Woese et al. 1990	Cavalier-Smith 1998	Cavalier-Smith 2015
2 kingdoms	3 kingdoms	2 empires	4 kingdoms	5 kingdoms	3 domains	2 empires, 6 kingdoms	2 empires, 7 kingdoms

*Wiki chart

Taxonomy

Family: FAMILY | APOCYNACEAE

Family Common Name: Dogbane Family

Kingdom: Plantae

Clade: Tracheophytes

Superdivision/Superphylum:

Division: Angiosperm

Subphylum:

Infraphylum:

Superclass:

Class: Eudicots

Subclass: Superasterids

Infraclass: Asterids

Subterclass: euasterids

Parvclass:

Legion:

Cohort:

Manorder:

Superorder: Lamids

Order: Gentianales

Suborder:

Infraorder:

Parvorder:

Superfamily:

Family: FAMILY | APOCYNACEAE

Subfamilies: Asclepiadoideae, Periplocoideae, Rauvolfioideae, Secamonoideae

Genera: 348

Species: 5100

Resources________________________________________

Endress ME, Bruyns PV (2000). "A revised classification of the Apocynaceae s.l.. The Botanical Review. 66 (1): 1–56.

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~ Grassroots Horticulture ~

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Yellow Flowering Frangipani (Plumeria).

Plumeria is native to Colombia and emits a very strong and pleasant aroma. Technically a tree, Plumeria is found all over the Caribbean coast, but especially in Barranquilla. Plumeria is in the Apocynaceae, Dogbane Family and has a clean tropical floral scent. The common name 'frangipani' comes from an Italian noble family, a sixteenth-century marquess of which invented a plumeria-scented perfume. It is grown extensively in southern and western parts of India, where it is named champa. Like Bougainvillea, Plumeria flowers come in all sorts of colours including white, pink, yellow, red, and even mixed colour combinations such as pink and yellow. While you can see Plumeria all over and at any time of the day, if you want to truly enjoy the aroma of this pleasant plant, wait until sundown—that is when the aroma is at its strongest.