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| color = IndianRed
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|familia=Apocynaceae
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| name = ''Plumeria''
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|genus=Plumeria
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| image = Fruit Salad Plumeria-6001.jpg
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|common_name=Plumeria, Frangipani
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| image_width = 240px
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|habit=tree
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| image_caption = Plumeria 'Fruit Salad'
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|Min ht box=4
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| growth_habit = [[Shrub]], Small Tree
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|Min ht metric=m
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| high = 4-8 m
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|Max ht box=8
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| lifespan = [[Perennial]]
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| exposure = Full Sun, High Shade
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|origin=tropical and subtropical Americas
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| water = moderate
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|poisonous=sap
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| features = Flowers, Fragrance
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|lifespan=perennial
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| hardiness = Frost tender
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|exposure=sun
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| usda_zones = vary
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|water=moderate
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| sunset_zones = vary by species
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|features=flowers, fragrance
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| regnum = Plantae
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|Temp Metric=°F
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| divisio = Magnoliophyta
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|sunset_zones=vary by species
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| classis = Magnoliopsida
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|image=Fruit Salad Plumeria-6001.jpg
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| ordo = Gentianales
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|image_width=240
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| familia = Apocynaceae
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|image_caption=Plumeria 'Fruit Salad'
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| genus = Plumeria
   
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'''''Plumeria''''' is a genus which is known by the common name '''Frangipani''' in some places.
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During warm periods, the plants will give strongly perfumed flowers, used in Hawaii to make leis. 
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'''''Plumeria''''' (common name '''Frangipani'''; [[syn.]] ''Himatanthus'' [[Willd.]] ex [[Roem.]] & [[Schult.]]) is a small genus of 7-8 handsome and useful species native to tropical and subtropical [[Americas]]. Open plants have leathery, pointed leaves at the ends of the branches. Flowers during warm seasons, and give clusters of large, showy, waxy flowers with a strong perfume.  ''Plumeria'' is related to the Oleander, ''[[Oleander|Nerium oleander]]'', and both possess poisonous, milky sap, rather similar to that of ''[[Euphorbia]]''.
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Plumeria (Charles Plumier, 1646-1706, distinguished French botanist). Also spelled Plumiera and Plumieria. ApocynaceaeTropical trees grown for their showy and very fragrant flowers.
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''Plumeria'' flowers are most fragrant at night in order to lure [[sphinx moths]] to pollinate them. The flowers have no [[nectar]], and simply dupe their pollinators. The moths pollinate them by transferring pollen from flower to flower in their fruitless search for nectar.
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Leaves alternate, penninerved, the primary veins joined to a nerve running parallel with the margin: fls. in terminal 2-3-chotomous cymes: bracts usually large and covering the young buds but deciduous long before anthesis; corolla-tube cylindrical throughout; stamens included, near the base of the tube; disk wanting or fleshy and covering the tube of the calyx; ovules in many series: follicles 2.—About 50 species, all Troc. American, of which 2 kinds at present are offered in s. Calif, and 2 in S. Fla. The species are much confused and imperfectly understood.
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The genus consists of mainly deciduous shrubs and trees. ''P. rubra'' (Common Frangipani, Red Frangipani), native to [[Mexico]], [[Central America]], and [[Venezuela]], produces flowers ranging from yellow to pink depending on form or cultivar. From Mexico and Central America, ''Plumeria'' has spread to all tropical areas of the world, especially [[Hawaii]], where it grows so abundantly that many people think that it is indigenous there.  
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Plumerias are amongst the most fragrant of tropical flowers, vying in this respect with the jessamine. Cape jasmine, and tuberose. They have large waxy funnel- shaped flowers with 5 spreading lobes of white, yellow, rose-purple, or combinations of the three colors. Choice specimens have been known to bear clusters 9 inches across, composed of more than twenty flowers each 3 1/2 inches across. They are considerably cultivated in all tropical lands. In the Pacific islands, P. acutifolia is frequent in graveyards. The word frangipani is supposed to be from the French, franchipanier, coagulated milk, referring to the tenacious white juice which exudes plentifully from the wounded plant. Other accounts suppose it to have come from an Italian noble- man of that name who in the Middle Ages compounded a perfume of many ingrediente and which the odor of these flowers resembled. All species are likely to be called frangipani. Plumerias are essentially summer-growing plants. Keep rather dry in winter. Propagation is by cuttings in February or March.
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The following species have been intro. and more or less cult, abroad: P. bicolort Ruiz & Pav. Tree, up to 40 ft. high: lvs. oblong, acuminate, margins revolute: fls. white, yellow at throat. Peru.—P. Jamemnii, Hook. Four feet high: lvs. mostly at tips of branches: as. yellow, deeply tinged with red. Ecuador.—P. Lambertiana., Lindl. Ten feet high: lvs. oblong, acuminate, flat: fls. white, yellow-throated, with broad- rhomboid obtuse segms. May to Aug. Mex. B.R. 1378.—P. lutea, Ruiz & Pav. Ten to 20 feet high: lvs. crowded at ends of branches, 8-18 in. long, oblong-ovate: fls. white, flushed very pale pink with a broad pale golden yellow center. Peru. —P. tricolor, Ruiz A Pav. (P. Kerii, Don). Fifteen feet high: lvs. obovate-oblong, tapering at both ends: fls. with a yellow throat, white above the yellow and bright rose around the segm. margin. July-Oct. Peru.—P. tuberculata, Lodd. Six feet high: branches tuberculate: lvs. coriaceous, narrow- oblong, tapering into the petioles: fis. white, scentless. Aug. Santo Domingo
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