Plumeria alba L.

  • Authority

    Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.

  • Family

    Apocynaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Plumeria alba L.

  • Description

    Species Description - Small tree 3-7 m tall; bark light-colored and corky. Leaf blades 15-30 x 1.2-4 cm, linear, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous, lower surface with prominent reticulate venation, sericeous, the apex acute or acuminate, the base obtuse or tapering, the margins strongly revolute; petioles 1-4 cm long, glabrous, furrowed. Calyx lobes ca. 3 mm long; corolla 3.3-6 cm long, white, yellow at center within, the tube 0.7-1.5 cm long, the lobes oblong, 2.5-4 cm long. Follicle 10-14 cm long, woody, brown to grayish, smooth.

  • Discussion

    Common names: frangipani, klang hout, milk tree, milky bush, paucipan, snake root, wild frangipani, wormy tree

  • Distribution

    Common in coastal thickets, sometimes cultivated for its fragrant flowers. Lind Point (A4240). Also on Anegada, Jost van Dyke, St. Croix, St. Thomas, Tortola, and Virgin Gorda; Puerto Rico, and in the Lesser Antilles (Anguilla to Grenada).

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