Duration: Perennial, Evergreen

Growth Habit: Tree

Native Status:  This ornamental garden plant is native to Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and the Caribbean.

Flower Color: White

Height: Up to 20 feet (6 m) tall

Description: The flowers are in rounded, bouquet-like clusters at the branch tips. The individual flowers are tubular, 3 inches (8 cm) across, and have 5 white, blunt-tipped, spreading lobes and a yellow center. There is no tinge of red anywhere on the flowers or the flower buds. The flowers are sometimes followed by dry, brown, linear-oblong seed follicles containing numerous winged seeds. The leaves are shiny dark green above, paler green and prominently veined below, leathery, and narrowly egg-shaped with a distinctive rounded tip. The leaves are clustered near the tips of the thick, fleshy, knobbly, brown branches.

Fragrant – The flowers are wonderfully fragrant. Singapore Plumeria flowers are made into leis or worn tucked behind the ear so that their perfume can be enjoyed by the wearer.

Poisonous – The milky latex sap is poisonous and can irritate the skin.

Sun – full sun