Plumeria, the Glossary
Plumeria, also known as frangipani, is a genus of flowering plants in the subfamily Rauvolfioideae, of the family Apocynaceae.[1]
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137 relations: Ailanthus triphysa, Andhra Pradesh, Apocynaceae, Arabian Peninsula, Auxin, Aztec Empire, Aztecs, Balinese Hinduism, Bangalore, Belize, Bengali language, Benzoin (resin), Borobudur, Botany, Brazil, Caribbean, Carl Linnaeus, Catholic Church, Cemetery, Central America, Charles Plumier, China, Citrus, Coconut, Colombia, Cook Islands, Cosmopolitan distribution, Cultivar, Culture of Bengal, Culture of Sri Lanka, Deciduous, Desert climate, Dominican Republic, East Africa, Evergreen, Fiji, Florida, Flowering plant, Frangipani family, French people, Gardenia, Genus, Ghost, Glossary of leaf morphology, Grafting, Greater Antilles, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Hawaii, ... Expand index (87 more) »
Ailanthus triphysa
Ailanthus triphysa (also Ailanthus malabarica) is a medium to tall evergreen rainforest tree that is native to Asia and Australia.
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Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh (abbr. AP) is a state in the southern coastal region of India.
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Apocynaceae
Apocynaceae (from Apocynum, Greek for "dog-away") is a family of flowering plants that includes trees, shrubs, herbs, stem succulents, and vines, commonly known as the dogbane family, because some taxa were used as dog poison.
Arabian Peninsula
The Arabian Peninsula (شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَة الْعَرَبِيَّة,, "Arabian Peninsula" or جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب,, "Island of the Arabs"), or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate.
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Auxin
Auxins (plural of auxin) are a class of plant hormones (or plant-growth regulators) with some morphogen-like characteristics.
Aztec Empire
The Aztec Empire or the Triple Alliance (Ēxcān Tlahtōlōyān, ˈjéːʃkaːn̥ t͡ɬaʔtoːˈlóːjaːn̥) was an alliance of three Nahua city-states: italic, italic, and italic.
Aztecs
The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican civilization that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521.
Balinese Hinduism
Balinese Hinduism (Hinduisme Bali; ᬳᬶᬦ᭄ᬤᬸᬯᬶᬲ᭄ᬫᬾᬩᬮᬶ, Hindusmé Bali), also known in Indonesia as Agama Hindu Dharma, Agama Tirtha, Agama Air Suci or Agama Hindu Bali, is the form of Hinduism practised by the majority of the population of Bali.
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Bangalore
Bangalore, officially Bengaluru (ISO: Beṁgaḷūru), is the capital and largest city of the southern Indian state of Karnataka.
Belize
Belize (Bileez) is a country on the north-eastern coast of Central America.
Bengali language
Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language from the Indo-European language family native to the Bengal region of South Asia.
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Benzoin (resin)
Benzoin or benjamin (corrupted pronunciation) is a balsamic resin obtained from the bark of several species of trees in the genus Styrax.
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Borobudur
Borobudur, also transcribed Barabudur (Candi Borobudur, Candhi Barabudhur), is a 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist temple in Magelang Regency, near the city of Magelang and the town of Muntilan, in Central Java, Indonesia.
Botany
Botany, also called plant science (or plant sciences), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.
Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.
Caribbean
The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Cemetery
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park, is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred.
Central America
Central America is a subregion of North America.
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Charles Plumier
Charles Plumier (20 April 1646 – 20 November 1704) was a French botanist after whom the frangipani genus Plumeria is named.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
Citrus
Citrus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the family Rutaceae.
Coconut
The coconut tree (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the palm tree family (Arecaceae) and the only living species of the genus Cocos.
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.
Cook Islands
The Cook Islands (Rarotongan: Kūki ‘Airani; Kūki Airani) is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean.
Cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, a cosmopolitan distribution is the range of a taxon that extends across most or all of the surface of the Earth, in appropriate habitats; most cosmopolitan species are known to be highly adaptable to a range of climatic and environmental conditions, though this is not always so.
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Cultivar
A cultivar is a kind of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and which retains those traits when propagated.
Culture of Bengal
The culture of Bengal defines the cultural heritage of the Bengali people native to eastern regions of the Indian subcontinent, mainly what is today Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura, where they form the dominant ethnolinguistic group and the Bengali language is the official and primary language.
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Culture of Sri Lanka
The culture of Sri Lanka mixes modern elements with traditional aspects and is known for its regional diversity.
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Deciduous
In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, after flowering; and to the shedding of ripe fruit.
Desert climate
The desert climate or arid climate (in the Köppen climate classification BWh and BWk) is a dry climate sub-type in which there is a severe excess of evaporation over precipitation.
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Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a North American country on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north.
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East Africa
East Africa, also known as Eastern Africa or the East of Africa, is a region at the eastern edge of the African continent, distinguished by its geographical, historical, and cultural landscape.
Evergreen
In botany, an evergreen is a plant which has foliage that remains green and functional throughout the year.
Fiji
Fiji (Viti,; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, Fijī), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean.
Florida
Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
Flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae, commonly called angiosperms.
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Frangipani family
The Frangipani family was a powerful Roman patrician clan in the Middle Ages.
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French people
The French people (lit) are a nation primarily located in Western Europe that share a common French culture, history, and language, identified with the country of France.
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Gardenia
Gardenia is a genus of flowering plants in the coffee family, Rubiaceae, native to the tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, Asia, Madagascar, Pacific Islands, and Australia.
Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
Ghost
In folklore, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or non-human animal that is believed to be able to appear to the living.
Glossary of leaf morphology
The following terms are used to describe leaf morphology in the description and taxonomy of plants.
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Grafting
Grafting or graftage is a horticultural technique whereby tissues of plants are joined so as to continue their growth together.
Greater Antilles
The Greater Antilles is a grouping of the larger islands in the Caribbean Sea, including Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Navassa Island, and the Cayman Islands.
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Guatemala
Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America.
Guyana
Guyana, officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern coast of South America, part of the historic mainland British West Indies. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". Georgetown is the capital of Guyana and is also the country's largest city.
Haiti
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas.
Hawaii
Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.
Himalayas
The Himalayas, or Himalaya.
Himatanthus bracteatus
Himatanthus bracteatus is a species of the genus Himatanthus (Apocynaceae), native Venezuela, Colombia, the Guianas, Brazil, Peru, and Ecuador.
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Himatanthus obovatus
Himatanthus obovatus is a species of genus Himatanthus in the family Apocynaceae, which is native Brazil, Bolivia, Guyana.
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Himatanthus stenophyllus
Himatanthus stenophyllus is a species of plant in the family Apocynaceae.
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Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.
Hispaniola
Hispaniola (also) is an island in the Caribbean that is part of the Greater Antilles.
Horticulture
Horticulture is the art and science of growing plants.
Incense
Incense is an aromatic biotic material that releases fragrant smoke when burnt.
India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.
Irrigation
Irrigation (also referred to as watering of plants) is the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow crops, landscape plants, and lawns.
Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory).
Jardin des plantes de Lille
The jardin des plantes de Lille (11 hectares) is a municipal botanical garden located on the rue du Jardin des plantes, Lille, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
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Jasmine
Jasmine (botanical name: Jasminum) is a genus of shrubs and vines in the olive family of Oleaceae.
Karnataka
Karnataka (ISO), also known colloquially as Karunāḍu, is a state in the southwestern region of India.
Kerala
Kerala (/), called Keralam in Malayalam, is a state on the Malabar Coast of India.
Kozhikode
Kozhikode, also known in English as Calicut, is a city along the Malabar Coast in the state of Kerala in India.
Krishna
Krishna (Sanskrit: कृष्ण) is a major deity in Hinduism.
Kuntilanak
The Kuntilanak (Indonesian name), also called Pontianak (Malay name), or Yakshi (in Hinduism/ Hindu mythology) is a mythological creature in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.
Laos
Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), is the only landlocked country and one of the two Marxist-Leninist states in Southeast Asia.
Latex
Latex is an emulsion (stable dispersion) of polymer microparticles in water.
Lei (garland)
A lei is a garland or wreath common in Hawaii, across Polynesia, and the Philippines.
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Lesser Antilles
The Lesser Antilles are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea.
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List of Maya gods and supernatural beings
This is a list of deities playing a role in the Classic (200–1000 CE), Post-Classic (1000–1539 CE) and Contact Period (1511–1697) of Maya religion.
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List of poisonous plants
Plants that produce toxins and/or cause irritation on contact are referred to as poisonous plants.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Magnolia champaca
Magnolia champaca, known in English as champak, is a large evergreen tree in the family Magnoliaceae.
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Malaysia
Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.
Marquess
A marquess (marquis) is a nobleman of high hereditary rank in various European peerages and in those of some of their former colonies.
Maya civilization
The Maya civilization was a Mesoamerican civilization that existed from antiquity to the early modern period.
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Medicinal plants
Medicinal plants, also called medicinal herbs, have been discovered and used in traditional medicine practices since prehistoric times.
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Mesoamerica
Mesoamerica is a historical region and cultural area that begins in the southern part of North America and extends to the Pacific coast of Central America, thus comprising the lands of central and southern Mexico, all of Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, and parts of Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.
Milk
Milk is a white liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals.
Monk
A monk (from μοναχός, monachos, "single, solitary" via Latin monachus) is a man who is a member of a religious order and lives in a monastery.
Nag champa
Nag champa is a natural fragrance of Indian origin.
Nahuatl
Nahuatl, Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family.
Nashik
Nashik, Marathi: naːʃik, formerly Nasik) is a city in the northern region of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
Nectar
Nectar is a viscous, sugar-rich liquid produced by plants in glands called nectaries, either within the flowers with which it attracts pollinating animals, or by extrafloral nectaries, which provide a nutrient source to animal mutualists, which in turn provide herbivore protection.
Neotropical realm
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface.
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New World
The term "New World" is used to describe the majority of lands of Earth's Western Hemisphere, particularly the Americas.
New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
Ornamental plant
Ornamental plants or garden plants are plants that are primarily grown for their beauty but also for qualities such as scent or how they shape physical space.
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Panama
Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America.
Peach
The peach (Prunus persica) is a deciduous tree first domesticated and cultivated in Zhejiang province of Eastern China.
Pelargonium graveolens
Pelargonium graveolens is a Pelargonium species native to the Cape Provinces and the Northern Provinces of South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
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Penataran
Penataran or Panataran (Candi Penataran) is one of the largest Hindu temple ruins complexes in East Java, Indonesia.
Perfume
Perfume (parfum) is a mixture of fragrant essential oils or aroma compounds (fragrances), fixatives and solvents, usually in liquid form, used to give the human body, animals, food, objects, and living-spaces an agreeable scent.
Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
Phyllotaxis
In botany, phyllotaxis or phyllotaxy is the arrangement of leaves on a plant stem.
Pipiltin
The Pipiltin (sg. pilli) were the noble social class in the Mexica Empire.
Plant propagation
Plant propagation is the process by which new plants grow from various sources, including seeds, cuttings, and other plant parts.
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Plants of the World Online
Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online database published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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Plumeria alba
Plumeria alba is a species of flowering plant in the genus Plumeria native to Puerto Rico and the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean. Plumeria and Plumeria alba are Flora of the Caribbean.
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Plumeria clusioides
Plumeria clusioides is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae.
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Plumeria obtusa
Plumeria obtusa, the Singapore graveyard flower, is a species of the genus Plumeria (Apocynaceae).
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Plumeria pudica
Plumeria pudica is a species of the genus Plumeria (Apocynaceae), native to Panama, Colombia and Venezuela.
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Plumeria rubra
Plumeria rubra is a deciduous plant species belonging to the genus Plumeria.
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Rauvolfioideae
Rauvolfioideae is a subfamily of the flowering plant family Apocynaceae (order Gentianales).
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Samoa
Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa and until 1997 known as Western Samoa, is a Polynesian island country consisting of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands (Manono and Apolima); and several smaller, uninhabited islands, including the Aleipata Islands (Nu'utele, Nu'ulua, Fanuatapu and Namua).
Shrub
A shrub or bush is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant.
Sigiriya
Sigiriya or Sinhagiri (Lion Rock සීගිරිය, சிகிரியா/சிங்ககிரி, pronounced see-gi-ri-yə) is an ancient rock fortress located in the northern Matale District near the town of Dambulla in the Central Province, Sri Lanka.
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.
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Sphingidae
The Sphingidae are a family of moths commonly called sphinx moths, also colloquially known as hawk moths, with many of their caterpillars known as "hornworms"; it includes about 1,450 species.
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.
Succulent plant
In botany, succulent plants, also known as succulents, are plants with parts that are thickened, fleshy, and engorged, usually to retain water in arid climates or soil conditions.
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Surat
Surat (Gujarati) is a city in the western Indian state of Gujarat.
Swahili language
Swahili, also known by its local name Kiswahili, is a Bantu language originally spoken by the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya and Mozambique (along the East African coast and adjacent littoral islands).
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Tabernaemontana retusa
Tabernaemontana retusa is a species of plant in the family Apocynaceae.
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Tahiti
Tahiti (Tahitian) is the largest island of the Windward group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia.
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo (translit,; translit), usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel.
Ternate
Ternate, also known as the City of Ternate, is a city in the Indonesian province of North Maluku and an island in the Maluku Islands.
The Bahamas
The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean.
The Night Tiger
The Night Tiger: A Novel is a 2019 novel by Malaysian author Yangsze Choo, written in English.
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Tonga
Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga (Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania.
Tree
In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, usually supporting branches and leaves.
Tropics
The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator.
United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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University of Wisconsin–Madison
The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States.
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Vanilla
Vanilla is a spice derived from orchids of the genus Vanilla, primarily obtained from pods of the flat-leaved vanilla (V. planifolia).
Vanilla planifolia
Vanilla planifolia is a species of vanilla orchid native to Mexico, Central America, Colombia, and Brazil.
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Venezuela
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.
West Indies
The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, which comprises 13 independent island countries and 19 dependencies in three archipelagos: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Lucayan Archipelago.
Western Ghats
The Western Ghats, also known as the Sahyadri, is a mountain range that stretches along the western coast of the Indian peninsula.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumeria
Also known as Dok champa, Fragipani, Frangipani, Kamboja Flower, Plumieria, Sacuanjoche.
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