Plumeria. Deciduous shrubs or small trees with pointed leaves, alias gardenia, day lily, jasmine, big season flower, Apocynaceae and Plumeria. Branchlets are plump and fleshy. The leaves are large and thick, papery, mostly clustered at the top of branches, and the veins are connected to one side near the leaf edge. Several flowers are clustered at the top of branches, and the corolla is tubular, about 5 ~ 6 cm in diameter, and 5-lobed. Milky white outside, bright yellow in the middle, very fragrant. Flowering period may ~ 65438+ 10. Plumeria blossoms in summer, fragrant and elegant. After the leaves fall, the bare trunk naturally bends and looks beautiful. Suitable for planting, potted plants and medicine in courtyards and grasslands. Native to America, it has been introduced and cultivated in China.

In Xishuangbanna, China and some countries in Southeast Asia, plumeria is widely planted as one of the "five trees and six flowers" in Buddhist temples, so it is also called "temple tree" or "tower tree". Its tree shape is beautiful and grotesque, and the whole trunk contains milk. Greenhouse cultivation will shed leaves in winter, which is a manifestation of its poor cold resistance. But the bare trunk bends naturally like a bonsai after falling leaves, and it is also very ornamental.