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Plumeria alba is a species of flowering plant in the genus Plumeria.

Plumeria alba
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Gentianales
Family:	Apocynaceae
Genus:	Plumeria
Species:	P. alba
Binomial name
Plumeria alba L.[1]
Synonyms[2]
Plumeria revolutifolia Stokes

Common names

• Caterpillar tree
• Cagoda tree
• Pigeon wood
• Nosegay tree
• White frangipani
• Kath golap (Bengali: কাঠ গোলাপ)
• Champa (Bengali: চাঁপা)
• Frangipanier à fleurs blanches (French)[3]
• Lee La Wa Dee (Thai: ลีลาวดี)
• Châmpéi sâ (Khmer)[3]
• Hoa chăm pa (Vietnamese)
• Kamboja (Indonesian)
• Dok Champa (Lao: ດອກຈໍາປາ)
• Chafa (Marathi)
• Sudu araliya (Sinhala)
• Champo (Gujarati)
• الياسمين الهندي

Uses

P. alba is often cultivated as an ornamental plant. 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.[3] 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.

Gallery

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  Flowers
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  Illustration
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  Foliage with Pseudosphinx caterpillars
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  Plumeria alba flower, Bangalore, India

References

External links

• National Tropical Botanical Garden Plant Database
• The Plants of Saint Lucia: Wild Flowering Plants
• Plumeria alba (White Frangipani), University of Florida

На других языках

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[de] Westindische Frangipani

Die Westindische Frangipani[1] (Plumeria alba) ist eine Pflanzenart aus der Gattung Plumeria in der Familie der Hundsgiftgewächse (Apocynaceae).[1]

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- [en] Plumeria alba

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[ru] Плюмерия белая

Plumeria alba  (лат.) — вид вечнозелёных деревьев рода Плюмерия (Plumeria) семейства Кутровые (Apocynaceae). Родом из Центральной Америки и Карибского бассейна, но в настоящее время натурализирован и повсеместен в южной и юго-восточной Азии.

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