Pomelia felicissima. History, botany and cultivation of plumeria in Palermo
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Fifteen years after its first appearance, we propose the re-edition of a book that, born as a " posthumous catalogue " of a very successful exhibition of the same name held at the Botanical Garden of the University of Palermo in the summer of 2005, immediately "freed... Full description >
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Fifteen years after its first appearance, we propose the re-edition of a book that, born as a " posthumous catalogue " of a very successful exhibition of the same name held at the Botanical Garden of the University of Palermo in the summer of 2005, immediately "freed itself" from the occasion for which it was born.
The text fills a gap in knowledge both in the botanical and cultural history of plants of the Plumeria genus, and in the socio-anthropological history of the relationship between the city of Palermo and its most beloved plant.
A sign of this predilection is the name " pomelia ", with which the people of Palermo have renamed it, preferring it to the more official plumeria or frangipani .
The first mention of its presence in Palermo dates back to the Catalogue of plants of the Botanical Garden of Boccadifalco published by Giovanni Gussone in 1821.
If, without straying too far from historical truth, we assume that it had arrived the year before, in 1820, we can ideally celebrate the 200 years of presence of the plumeria in Palermo with this re-edition of Pomelia.
