White frangipani is native to Caribbean, particularly Puerto Rico, but has since been introduced to tropical areas all over the world. It blooms highly fragrant white flowers with yellow centers in the spring that some cultures use as a perfume. The white frangipani is also cultivated in greenhouses or outdoors in the tropics for its aesthetic beauty and ornamental uses. It can be found in Coastal thickets and limestone forests at low elevations and ascending to lower montne areas.

Plumeria alba is a somewhat succulent, evergreen shrub or a tree that does not have a true crown of foliage, but forms a somewhat vase-shape with a few stout, soft and brittle erect branches ending in clusters of crowded, spreading leaves; it can grow 3 - 8 metres tall. The bole can be 10cm in diameter and has multiple trunks.

BARK: thin, tender and when cut or broken exudes, sticky, white sap which is an irritant

LEAVES: cluster in spirals on the stems and are generally a deep green, 6-22 cm long, 2-7 cm wide, obovate shape and the tip of the leaf is rounded, rather than pointed as it is in other species, yield milky white sap when cracked open. The leaves are dark and leathery and tend to be shiny on the upper surface with conspicuous parallel secondary veins that run from the mid vein to the margins of the leaves.  

FLOWERS: borne in clusters that form at the ends of the branches on a long thick stalk, bright white with yellow centers and are quite fragrant, 5 petals each that are fused at the base in a short funnel-shaped tube which gradually widens as the lobes of the petals are spread out.

FRUIT: small pods, dry follicle which splits along one side to release the winged seeds.

An ornamental tree.

Medicine: the root bark, the latex, the flowers, seeds. http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php id=Plumeria+alba

The wood is used in carpentry where the tree grows to sufficient size.

The wood is used for fuel.