The Plumeria Varieties and Cultivar Guide is your ultimate resource for exploring the fascinating diversity within the world of plumeria. Featuring an extensive selection of cultivars, this guide details each variety’s distinctive flower colors, alluring fragrances, growth habits, and botanical origins. Whether you seek vibrant reds, soft pastels, or exotic multicolor blossoms, this comprehensive catalog makes it easier than ever to identify, compare, and choose the perfect plumeria cultivars for your garden, collection, or nursery.
Col’s Cooktown Sunset Plumeria
Col’s Cooktown Sunset aka Carnavon Sunset, Berries & Cream, Weipa Sunset, Darwin Sunset, Darwin Rainbow, Tanjelo, Hawaiian Sunset, not Cookstown (sic). Lovely 3″ bright yellow flower with pinkish-red band, Orange and Pink with fruity and spicy fragrance, petals slightly overlapped. Large, full flower heads which are highly visible even from a distance. Average to upright tall growth habit. Hard to root, but easy to graft. Floppy grower, needs to be staked, performs better with low water.
- Color: Orange, Yellow and Pink
- Flower Size: 3″
- Blooming: Nice size inflorescences
- Growth: Tall and lanky
- Scent: Fruity and spicy
- AKAs: Carnavon Sunset, Berries & Cream, Weipa Sunset, Darwin Sunset, Darwin Rainbow, Tanjelo, Hawaiian Sunset
- Notes: Can be pale pink and lemon early season turning red and banana yellow in heat
- Reg # 368