Plumeria rubraL.

Mexican Plumeria

WFO wfo-0000279184 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Plumeria rubra, photographed by Diana Fuentes
fig. a Diana Fuentes, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-05-25 / obs. 202587377
Plumeria rubra, photographed by Diana Fuentes
fig. b Diana Fuentes, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 202579429
Plumeria rubra, photographed by Francisco Farriols Sarabia
fig. c Francisco Farriols Sarabia, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194459654
Plumeria rubra, photographed by Juan Cruzado Cortés
fig. d Juan Cruzado Cortés, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 199884461
Plumeria rubra, photographed by J Alejandro González Castillo
fig. e J Alejandro González Castillo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 164227295
Plumeria rubra, photographed by Haneesh K M
fig. f Haneesh K M, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195033696
Plumeria rubra, photographed by Jim Riley
fig. g Jim Riley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 168112592
Plumeria rubra, photographed by Светлана Царахова
fig. h Светлана Царахова, CC0 1.0 / obs. 180866034

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Flowering n = 3,211 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 3,211 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 41 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Plumeria acuminata W.T.Aiton
  • Plumeria acutifolia Poir.
  • Plumeria acutifolia var. gasparrinii A.DC.
  • Plumeria angustifolia A.DC.
  • Plumeria arborea Noronha
  • Plumeria arborescens G.Don
  • Plumeria aurantia Endl.
  • Plumeria aurantia G.Lodd.
  • Plumeria aurantiaca Steud.
  • Plumeria bicolor Ruiz & Pav.
  • Plumeria blandfordiana G.Lodd.
  • Plumeria carinata Ruiz & Pav.
  • Plumeria conspicua hort. ex G.Don
  • Plumeria gouanii D.Don ex G.Don
  • Plumeria incarnata Mill.
  • Plumeria incarnata var. milleri (G.Don) A.DC.
  • Plumeria jamesonii Hook.
  • Plumeria kerrii G.Don
  • Plumeria kunthiana Kostel.
  • Plumeria lambertiana Lindl.
  • Plumeria loranthifolia Müll.Arg.
  • Plumeria lutea Ruiz & Pav.
  • Plumeria macrophylla Lodd.
  • Plumeria mariaelenae J.F.Gut. & J.Linares

and 17 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.