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Common name: Plumeria, Frangipani, Champa (Hindi), Khageleihao angouba (Manipuri), Kathgolop (Bengali), चाफ़ा (Marathi), Chaempae चँपें (Konkani)
Botanical name: Plumeria obtusa Family: Apocynaceae (oleander family)
Plumeria are a tropical flowering tree, sometimes called frangipani,
in the plant family Apocynaceae. Though tropical by nature, when
protected from frost, they are well suited to subtropical climates
in the United States in states bordered by the Gulf of Mexico, and in
Southern California. They are prolific in Hawaii.Plumeria are valued as
landscape plants, ornamentals, and for their flowers. Singapore plumeria
has larger flowers compared to plumeria rubra, and the longish petals are
almost not overlapping. Leaves do not have pointed ends like plumeria
rubra, and are rather blunt.
| Photographed in Jamia Millia,
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