Common Names

In Mexico the common name is Cacaloxochitl or Suchitl. The name comes from nahualt and means Crow’s flower.[3] The common name in Australia is ‘frangipani’, although ‘plumeria’ is used in the United States. Other common names are ‘red frangipani’, ‘common frangipani’, ‘temple tree’, or simply ‘plumeria’. The term melia is a Hawaiian one. The common […]