Plumeria rubra L.
Plumeria rubra L.
Family: Apocynacee
Calachuchi, Temple tree, Pagoda tree
Local name (Kannada):
Habit: Tree
Distribution:
Native of Tropical America.
Use: Ornamental.
Description:
Deciduous trees, to 10 m high; latex milky. Leaves simple, alternate spiral, clustered, 20-40 cm long, obovate-spathulate, margin entire, glabrous, subcoriaceous. Flowers bisexual, in terminal corymbose stout cymes. Calyx cupular, lobes 5, round, obtuse. Corolla 4-5 cm across, pink or cream with yellow centre; tube 2 cm, expanded from above the middle; lobes 5. Stamens 5, attached at the base of the tube. Fruit an aggregate of 2 follicle, to 25 x 4 cm, pustulate; seeds winged.