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Plumeria obtusa
Also called Singapore White Frangipani, Singapore White Plumeria, White Frangipani, Great White Frangipani
In Singapore: Great White Frangipani, Frangipani, Temple tree, Singapore graveyard flower, Cempaka, Chempaka, Kemboja, Bunga Kubur, Great Frangipani, Singapore Plumeria, 鸡蛋花 (Grown in Singapore)
Plumeria obtusa is a small, evergreen-leaved tree from the Neotropics, widely grown for its fragrant white flowers with yellow throats. It needs warm, frost-free conditions and well-drained soil.
Plumeria obtusa, the Singapore graveyard flower, is a species of the genus Plumeria (Apocynaceae). It is native to the Neotropics, but widely cultivated for its ornamental and fragrant flowers around the world, where suitably warm climate exists.
Plumeria obtusa is native to the West Indies (including the Bahamas and the Greater Antilles), southern Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala. Cultivation is common in warmer parts of the world, including Florida, Southeast Asia, and coastal parts of the Arabian Peninsula. It is reportedly naturalized in China and India.
This plant is commonly used as an ornamental, grown for its flowers. In Cambodia the flowers are used to make necklaces and in offerings to the deities. In traditional medicine used in that country, a decoction of the bark is given in varying doses as a purgative or as a remedy against oedema.
Nosegaytree · Hammerleaf Frangipani · Templetree · Frangipani
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
