"meeee" writes:
"John Savage" wrote in message
I used to regularly walk past a garden with a frangipani whose flowers
were such a dark purple as to be practially black. They were smallish and
not as attractive as the common frangi, but such a novelty. Unfortunately
the branches were out of reach from the street :-(
and I wasn't brave enough to knock and ask
whether I could please have a cutting.

Then one day I discovered that the tree had been cut back to just a stump!
It never regrew, so my opportunity to own a black frangipani slipped by!
There weren't even any prunings piled up anywhere that I could rifle.

ARGH!! Those HEATHENS!!! *Sigh* And they probably never knew what they had
either....

It's possible that I jumped to the wrong conclusion. You have prompted me
to rethink the possibilities.......

Perhaps someone else coverted the black frangipani and "did it over" late
one night while the owners were asleep? That would explain why it was
hacked back so severely, and why I couldn't see any prunings stacked up on
the footpath.

So, does anyone recall seeing a bunch of potted black frangipanis on sale
at a Sydney carboot sale about 9 years ago???
--
John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)