Frangipani

Description:

The flowers are clustered at the branch tips. The individual flowers are tubular, 2 inches (5 cm) across, and have 5 broadly to narrowly oval lobes with yellow at their base. The flower stalks, flower buds, and the outside of the petals are reddish or tinged with red. The flowers emerge before the leaves in the springtime. The flowers are sometimes followed by dry and brown 5 inch (12 cm) long seed containing winged seeds. The leaves are matte green, leathery, and narrowly elliptic in shape with a distinctive pointed tip. The leaves are spirally arranged and clustered at the tips of the brown branches. The plants have an open, branching form.

Habitat:

Growth habit is a tree or a shrub. They were spread all over the world to tropical climates.

Notes:

Found by A-13. Tamura - Pd1