This is what happens when plumeria and car juggle for driveway space. Car always wins. This is DD's Calif Sunset that I am plant sitting. This is the second broken branch plus one badly cracked that I have taped up. I think it needs to go to FL.

From the subject of your thread, I thought you had been involved in a car accident.
Plumeria (Plumeria rubra 'California Sunset') is a pretty one; will the cracks heal when you tape them? Will you root that broken branch for another plant?

I know. Sorry. It was a plumeria car accident. A car hit the plumeria. A car accident to a plumeria. I tried not to illicit panic by not using caps and not putting it in an All About Gardening thread. Bad thinking on my part I guess. I can't edit the title.

I have successfully taped branches together. Once I taped one together and it grew aerial roots after which I cut it completely free and planted it. It is successfully growing in my neighbor's yard. But it all depends on how badly the branch is broken if and how well it takes. But yes, I will start the cutting after it callouses. Not only is this a pretty, long-lasting flower, but the tree blooms all summer on multiple branches. In fact, the broken branch has the most recent inflo, which will be cut off.

The tree is currently badly misshapen from preparations made to move it in the car from California to Florida, my DD's new home. Since February, she slowly bent the branches to make it more compact for their April move. But she left it behind in TX during her visit opting for more important cargo. They will return at end of August to retrieve it. She insists the 4 ft tree remain in the original 8" pot 1) to keep it from growing into a full blown tree this summer. And 2) to help with transplanting in FL. I have the 8" root bound pot buried into a larger pot with more soil. But the plant still falls over as it is quite misshapen. And the car accident taking down another branch didn't help that much. I am sure once it gets to it's new home, bungee cords released, it will grow, spread out, and look beautiful again.

I hope your daughters new Florida home is zone 9b or 10 so that her Plumie survives the winters. At one time, I had at least a dozen Plumeria's in containers. We have occasional frosts and freezes here in the Daytona Beach area so I was having to drag them all inside when it got cold, which was a pain so I gave all of them away except one. When we bought a home farther south in zone 10a (Sebastian, Fl) a few years ago, I planted my one Plumeria tree in the ground. It was so pretty but during a hurricane in 2016, an oak branch fell on it and then during last years hurricane, a huge, very heavy, maple tree fell on it, and busted it to smithereens. It didn't survive but I'd given a neighbor a small plant that I'd rooted from a cutting of my big tree and hers is doing really well and has grown large so I'll get a cutting from her eventually. My husband and I are currently back at our other home in the Daytona Beach area and we're having major renovations done at our house in Sebastian so when we move back, I'm going to plant at least one Plumeria ... in an area away from big trees.

Thanks Hetty? for fixing the topic. I didn't mean to alarm anyone. Though I was alarmed myself when I found DD2's car so close and the broken branch on the ground.

I didn't fix anything.....

I did. You could have done it yourself. At the bottom of every thread there is a place to change things. Look for the "Suggest a Change."

Thank you @plantmanager Karen. I didn't know about that feature.

It's very handy if you see something that ought to be in another forum, or if someone spells something really wrong in their titles!