AKA indicate other known names in addition to the original plumeria name or registered name. “Also Know As” names used to market this plumeria. Related Images:
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Key Dichotomous
A tool for plant classification and identification. Consists of a series of paired statements that move from general to specific descriptions. Related Images:
NOID
An abbreviation indicating a plumeria’s name has No Identification. Related Images:
Taxonomy
Classification or naming of plants or animals. Related Images:
Plant classification
The scientific grouping and naming of plants by characteristics. Related Images:
Nomenclature
The assigning of names in the classification of plants. Related Images:
Species
A group of individual plants interbreeding freely and having many (or all) characteristics in common. Related Images:
Plumeria obtusa
Plumeria obtusa is a species of the genus Plumeria (Apocynaceae). It is native to West Indies including Bahamas; southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Florida. Widely cultivated for its ornamental and fragrant flowers around the world, where suitably warm climate exists. It is reportedly naturalized in China. Related Images:
Genus
A subdivision of family in the classification of plants. Plants of the same genus share similarities mostly in flower characteristics and genetics. Plants in one genus usually cannot breed with plants of another genus. Related Images:
Frangipani
Frangipani, Any of the shrubs or small trees that make up the genus Plumeria, in the dogbane family, native to the New World tropics and widely cultivated as ornamentals; also, a perfume derived from or imitating the odour of the flower of one species, P. rubra. The white-edged, yellow flowers of the Mexican frangipani (P. […]