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Scentless Frangipani
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Scentless Frangipani
D Introduced Photo: Gary Thingnam
Common name: Scentless Frangipani, Wild frangipani • Manipuri: ꯈꯒꯤ ꯂꯩꯍꯥꯑꯣ Khagi leihao
Botanical name: Plumeria inodora    Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Synonyms: Plumeria alba var. inodora, Plumeria alba var. fragrans

Scentless Frangipani is a small rounded deciduous tree that grows in a vase-shape to 15-25 ft tall. It bears non-fragrant 5-petaled flowers with yellow centers, 7-8 cm across, in clusters at the branch tips. Upright branches are thick but weak, and have a milky sap. Inverted-lanceshaped to obovate green leaves up to 30 cm long, dark green above, paler beneath. They are spirally clustered at the stem ends. It is often confused with Plumeria obtusa and the white flowered variety of the Plumeria rubra which are intensely fragrant and which often are mistakenly called Plumeria alba. Scentless Frangipani is native to Colombia, Guyana, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, cultivated elsewhere. It is cultivated in NE India.

Identification credit: Tabish Photographed in Imphal, Manipur.

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