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Frangipani Trees
Plumeria
Plumeria (), commonly known as frangipani, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae. Most species are deciduous shrubs or small trees. They are native to the Neotropical realm in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and northwestern South America, but are often grown as ornamental plants in tropical regions, including Florida, Hawaii, South America south to northern Argentina, southern China, northern India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Senegal, and in parts of the Arabian Peninsula with irrigation.
20 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Mexican Plumeria
speciesPlumeria rubra
Singapore graveyard flower
speciesPlumeria obtusa
Hammerleaf Frangipani
speciesPlumeria pudica
Nosegaytree
speciesPlumeria alba
Plumeria acuminata
speciesPlumeria acuminata
Plumeria krugii
speciesPlumeria krugii
Plumeria tuberculata
speciesPlumeria tuberculata
Plumeria subsessilis
speciesPlumeria subsessilis
Plumeria × stenopetala
hybridPlumeria × stenopetala
Scentless Frangipani
speciesPlumeria inodora
Plumeria magna
speciesPlumeria magna
Plumeria filifolia
speciesPlumeria filifolia
Plumeria cubensis
speciesPlumeria cubensis
Plumeria emarginata
speciesPlumeria emarginata
Plumeria montana
speciesPlumeria montana
Plumeria marchii
speciesPlumeria marchii
Plumeria lanata
speciesPlumeria lanata
Plumeria venosa
speciesPlumeria venosa
Plumeria trinitensis
speciesPlumeria trinitensis
Plumeria clusioides
speciesPlumeria clusioides
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium
Maria Sibylla Merian · 1705 · p.33
The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands : containing two hundred a...
Catesby, Mark, bioloog, kunstenaar · 1743 · p.285
The Natural History of Carolina Florida and Bahama Islands Vol. 2
Mark Catesby · 1743 · p.283
Christoph Jakob Trew — Uitgezochte planten (1771)
Christoph Jakob Trew · 1771 · p.172
Mark Catesby — Piscium, serpentum, insectorum (pt. 2) (1777)
Mark Catesby · 1777 · p.63
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx — Moninckx Atlas, vol. 3 (1686)
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx · 1686 · p.28
Elements of Botany
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort · 1719 · p.190
The Ambonese Herbal, Vol. 3
Georg Eberhard Rumphius · 1743 · p.126
Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 27)
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.59
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Plumeria in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48319.