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Plumeria obtusa L.

Singapore graveyard flower (en), Frangipanier (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Apocynaceae > Plumeria

Characteristics

Trees to 5 m tall. Branchlets pale green, thick, fleshy. Petiole puberulent; leaf blade obovate to narrowly so, dark green and shiny adaxially, tertiary venation strongly prominent abaxially, apex rounded. Corolla white, ca. 4 cm in diam., throat yellow; lobes spreading, slightly recurved. Follicles to 15 X 1.5 cm. 2n = 36.
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A tree. It can lose its leaves in dry seasons. The branches are spreading and the crown is round. It grows 8 m tall and spreads 4 m wide. The leaves are pointed and oval. They are 18 cm long. The flower are tube shaped and have a scent.
Small trees; corolla tube narrow; anthers without long bristly appendages. Leaves obovate or elliptic, > 2 cm wide. Leaf blade rounded at apex, dark green, shiny above
A cultivated shrub or tree from the Americas, to 8 m with white flowers.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 4.0
Mature height (meter) 5.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) 0.9
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a tropical plant. In Yunnan. In Townsville Queens BG.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 1-5
Soil texture 3-4
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

The flowers are eaten in fritters or omelettes.
Uses environmental use food material medicinal
Edible flowers
Therapeutic use Boil (unspecified), Cicatrizant (unspecified), Hemostat (unspecified), Pectoral (unspecified), Purgative (unspecified), Sore (unspecified), Syphilis (unspecified), Wound (unspecified), Blennorrhagia (unspecified), Herpes (unspecified), Hydragogue (unspecified), Wart (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Plants can be grown from seeds or cuttings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) 1
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Leaf

Plumeria obtusa leaf picture by Bryan Mitchell (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Plumeria obtusa flower picture by LuAnn Dahl (cc-by-sa)
Plumeria obtusa flower picture by Tick Luna (cc-by-sa)
Plumeria obtusa flower picture by Dieter Albrecht (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Plumeria obtusa world distribution map, present in Bangladesh, Bahamas, Belize, Brunei Darussalam, China, Cuba, Cayman Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Guatemala, Guam, Honduras, Jamaica, Cambodia, Maldives, Mexico, Marshall Islands, Myanmar, Northern Mariana Islands, Pakistan, Philippines, Palau, Puerto Rico, Turks and Caicos Islands, Thailand, United States of America, and Viet Nam

Conservation status

Plumeria obtusa threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:81256-1
WFO ID wfo-0000279164
COL ID 4KJCR
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 446926
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Plumeria apiculata Plumeria cuneifolia Plumeria estrellensis Plumeria inaguensis Plumeria marchii Plumeria multiflora Plumeria nipensis Plumeria nivea Plumeria obtusa Plumeria ostenfeldii Plumeria parvifolia Plumeria portoricensis Plumeria tenorei Plumeria versicolor Plumeria bahamensis Plumeria barahonensis Plumeria beatensis Plumeria bicolor Plumeria jamaicensis Plumeria hypoleuca Plumeria obtusa var. obtusa Plumeria obtusa var. sericifolia Plumeria casildensis Plumeria cayensis Plumeria confusa Plumeria obtusa var. laevis Plumeria obtusa var. typica
WorldFloraDB 2024