Our favorite, Frangies

We love the Frangipani trees that dot the landscape on Churchill Road.
(The scientific name is Plumeria and the tree is native to tropical and subtropical America.)
Here is the one on the corner of Churchill and Olive.



The trees' flowers are most frangrant in the evening in order to lure sphinx moths to pollinate them. According to Wikipedia, Frangipani flowers have no nectar, and simply dupe their pollinators. The flowers are pollinated as the moths transfer pollen from flower to flower in their fruitless search for nectar.
The trees are surprisingly easy to grow. They reach full size of around 30 feet tall in about five years.
Just take a ripe cutting of a small, leafless branch in spring and allow it dry at the base. Then, plant it.
We can't resist the delicate colors of the flowers on the various trees. You don't see that in the Midwest. In Hawaii, the exotic-looking flowers are used to make leis.