Pluterperfect Plumeria

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The common Plumeria;

often a Hawaii child's first lei, a gift for Mom.

" Mama was my greatest teacher, 

a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. 

If love is sweet as a flower, 

then my mother is that sweet flower of love. "

Stevie Wonder

Called "church yard flower" or "make man's flower"

(Mah-kay = dead) for it's ubiquity in isle grave yards.

"Love is the flower you've got to let grow."
                    

                  John Lennon

 Named for the 17th Century French botanist Plumier -
(First Known Use: 1753).

Fitting since reminds me of fleur de lis.

"Love is flower like;

Friendship is like a sheltering tree."

 
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Rhymes with PLUMERIA:

Algeria, Assyria, asteria, bacteria, diphtheria, Egeria, Elyria, Iberia, Illyria, Liberia, Nigeria, porphyria, Siberia, wisteria.  

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 Also known as Frangipani

 "Any of a genus (Plumeria) of shrubs or small trees 

of the dogbane family that are native to the

American tropics

and widely cultivated as ornamentals." 

Merriam-Webster



 

" Nobody sees a flower really; 

it is so small. We haven't time,

and to see takes time - 

like to have a friend takes time.  "

Georgia O'Keeffe

 

A modification of Italian frangipane,

  from Muzio Frangipane, 

a 16th century Italian nobleman.

First Known Use: 1675.

" One could not pluck a flower

without troubling a star.  "

Loren Eiseley 


 

" Pick a flower on Earth

and you move the farthest star.  "

Paul Dirac


 

 

Rhymes with FRANGIPANI:

Hindustani, hootenanny

" Personality is to a man

what perfume is to a flower.  "

Charles M. Schwab

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