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Plumeria (common name: Frangipani) is a small genus of 7-8 species, native to tropical and subtropical America. The genus consist of mainly deciduous shrubs and trees. P. rubra (Common Frangipani, Red Frangipani), native to Central America, Mexico and Venezuela, produces flowers ranging from yellow to pink depending on form or cultivar.
Plumerias are well known for being used in Hawaiian leis and they are easly propogated by taking a ripe cutting of of leafless stem tips in spring and allowing them to dry at the base before inserting them into soil.
They are now common in South-East Asia and in local folk beliefs provide shelter to ghosts and demons.
 Frangipany flower from Bali, Indonesia. |
