Plumeria
Red Frangipani ( Plumeria rubra)
Frangipani [ frandʒipa ː ni ] ( plumeria), also Frangipandi, wax flower, Flor de Cebo or temple tree called, is a genus of flowering plants in the family of the dogbane family ( Apocynaceae ). The botanical genus name honors the French botanist Charles Plumier ( 1646-1704 ). Varieties of individual species will be planted in parks and gardens for the beauty and fragrance of the flowers throughout the tropical belt.
Description
The Plumeria species grow as deciduous trees or shrubs. They contain abundant milky sap. Fleshy branches have a diameter of 2 to 3 cm.
The axils are glandular. The alternate or spiral, most frequently located at the tips of the branches and leaves are rough -stalked.
The axillary or terminal inflorescences are composed and often many flowered with large bracts fall even during the heyday from. The waxy, fragrant, hermaphroditic, flowers are radial symmetry fünfzählig. The five fused sepals are short with the same or different multiform calyx lobes. The five petals are fused - bowl to funnel-shaped. The inside hairy corolla tube ends in five outstretched Corolla lobe, which overlap in a clockwise direction. The colors of the petals range from white to yellow and from light to dark pink. When a disc is present, then it is fleshy. It's just a circle with five fertile stamens present; they are connected to the base of the corolla tube, but not adherent to the punch. The ovary is semi- inferior with many more rows arranged ovules. The short style ends in a two-column scar.
Two elongated follicles are formed per flower, containing many seeds. The seeds have membranous wings.
System
The genus of frangipani ( plumeria) comprises seven to eight species for some authors up to 17 species. Rafaël Govaerts from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew recognizes in his Checklist following species and hybrids to:
- West Indian Frangipani ( Plumeria alba L.)
- Plumeria filifolia Griseb.
- Plumeria inodora Jacq.
- Plumeria magna Zanoni & M.M.Mejía
- Plumeria maria elenae J.F.Gut. & J.Linares
- Fragrant frangipani ( Plumeria obtusa L.) Plumeria obtusa var obtusa
- Plumeria obtusa var sericifolia ( C.Wright ex Griseb. ) Woodson
- Plumeria × stenopetala nothovar. angustissima Urb.
- Plumeria × stenopetala nothovar. stenopetala
Importance
The West Indian frangipani is the national flower of Nicaragua, known here under the name of national Sacuanjoche. Your image adorns, among others the background of each page of the Nicaraguan passport.
Frangipani was also the name of an Italian family of perfumers, who produced a very popular in the Middle Ages perfume, as well as an ancient Roman noble family. See family Frangi and Francopan and Frangipani (Family)