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Plumeria alba is the national flower of Laos, where it is known under the local name champa or dok champa. In Bengali culture, most white flowers, and in particular, plumeria (Bengali, chômpa or chãpa), are associated with funerals and death. Indian incenses scented with Plumeria rubra have "champa" in their names.
The common name "frangipani" comes from the Italian Frangipani family, a sixteenth-century marquess of which invented a plumeria-scented perfume. The genus name honors Charles Plumier, who was a French monk of the Franciscan order, and a botanist. [6] In its native range in Mexico the common name is cacaloxochitl or cacaloxuchitl.
In Cambodia pagodas especially choose this shrub, with the flowers used in ritual offerings to the deities, they are sometimes used to make necklaces which decorate coffins. [4] In addition, the flowers are edible and eaten as fritters, while the heart of the wood is part of a traditional medical preparation taken as a vermifuge or as a laxative .
The sole included species is Hymenosporum flavum, commonly known as native frangipani, found in the rainforests and wet sclerophyll forests of New Guinea, Queensland and New South Wales. Despite its common name, it is not closely related to the frangipani , but is related to the widespread genus Pittosporum .
Plumeria obtusa, the Singapore graveyard flower, [3] is a species of the genus Plumeria (Apocynaceae). It is native to the Neotropics , but widely cultivated for its ornamental and fragrant flowers around the world, where suitably warm climate exists.
Plumeria: frangipani trees; Plumeria alba: white frangipani Apocynaceae (dogbane family) Plumeria inodora: odorless frangipani Apocynaceae (dogbane family) Plumeria obtusa: Singapore frangipani Apocynaceae (dogbane family) Plumeria rubra: red frangipani; temple tree Apocynaceae (dogbane family) Aquifoliaceae: holly family; Ilex: holly trees ...
[2] [6] The word first denoted the frangipani plant, from which was produced the perfume originally said to flavor frangipane. [7] Other sources say that the name as applied to the almond custard was an homage by 16th-century Parisian chefs in name only to Frangipani, who created a jasmine -based perfume with a smell like the flowers to perfume ...
This profuse bloomer has leaves in the shape of a cobra's hood, and its flowers are white with a yellow center. There is a variegated leaved Plumeria pudica commonly called Golden Arrow or Gilded Spoon , as well as a pink flowering hybrid produced in Thailand called Sri Supakorn or Pink pudica .