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pinwheel flower

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Noun1.pinwheel flower - tropical shrub having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas; northern India to Thailand
genus Tabernaemontana, Tabernaemontana - evergreen tropical trees and shrubs with milky sap
bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems


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Aided by shoot terminals, it can climb higher than 20 feet and is a generous producer of white, fragrant, pinwheel flowers in late spring and early summer.
Set designer Debby Lee Coben dresses the stage first with fragments of Greek columns, then renders a heaven out of cheap disposables: pop bottle leaves on spindly trees, plastic vines and pinwheel flowers adorning a chain-link fence footlighted by gallon-jug lamps.
Plumeria, with those fragrant pastel pinwheel flowers used in Hawaiian leis, requires a high phosphate fertilizer such as Peters Super Blossom Booster (10-50-10) or Schultz Expert Gardener Bloom Plus (10-60-10).
 
 
 
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