Plumeria Flower And Sphinx Moths. Enjoy these beautiful tropical plants in your garden. Once pollinated plumeria flowers will fade and begin to grow into seed pods.
Moth pollination particularly by sphinx moths is prevalent across the tropics and includes trees within the genera Dipterocarpus Dipterocarpaceae and Plumeria Apocynacea. The adults are powerful fast-flying moths with stout bodies one of the largest hawk moths found in Trinidad and Tobago Cock 2008. Plumeria seeds form when a flower is pollinated either by the wind self pollination or by an animal hummingbird butterfly thrip sphinx moth tiny ants or by human.
02052009 Plumeria frangipani flowers are most fragrant at night in order to lure sphinx moths to pollinate them.
Plumeria seeds form when a flower is pollinated either by the wind self pollination or by an animal hummingbird butterfly thrip sphinx moth tiny ants or by human. Plumeria seed pods grow from flowers pollinated during the previous growth season. The flowers have no nectar and simply dupe their pollinators. Plumeria flowers are most fragrant at night in order to lure sphinx moths to pollinate them.