Thai Botanic · Project plant supply
Plumeria rubra
Plumeria rubra supplied from Thailand for landscape projects. Scented sculptural small tree for courtyards, pool surrounds and raised planters.
Frangipani, temple tree · Apocynaceae · Deciduous small tree
Thick sculptural branches and heavily scented flowers in white, cream, pink and red. Small, slow and highly architectural — used as a garden object as much as a tree, and one of the few species here that reads well against a wall or in a container.
Specification
| Mature height | 3–8 m |
|---|---|
| Crown spread | 3–6 m (indicative) |
| Caliper range supplied | 5–22 cm standard, measured 1 m above soil level. Larger by arrangement. |
| Root-ball diameter | 50–100 cm (indicative) |
| Growth rate | Slow |
| Habit | Deciduous in a dry or cool season |
| Flowering | Strongly scented, white to deep pink; long season |
Landscape use
Courtyards, pool surrounds, entrances, temple and hotel grounds, and raised planters. Its scale and slow growth make it one of the few trees here that is safe close to buildings and hard landscape.
As with others in its family the sap is a milky latex, so gloves are usual when pruning. Specify it for scent, flower and sculptural form — it is a tree to stand beside rather than shelter under.
Site tolerance
| Drought | High — succulent branches store water |
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| Salinity | Moderate to high — used in coastal gardens |
| Wind | Moderate — brittle branches |
| Soil | Sharp drainage essential. Rots in wet ground. |
| Heat | Very high |
| USDA zone | 10–12 |
Export notes
Supplied root-balled and wrapped. Among the most forgiving species in transit — it tolerates a dry root ball far better than most. Phytosanitary certification accompanies every shipment. See export and compliance, and how the root ball is built, wrapped and loaded for the container on our nursery site.
For available sizes and current stock in this species, message us on WhatsApp at +66 93 425 9892 or email contact@thaibotanic.com — or browse the species catalogue. This is one of the species we grow and supply regularly. If you are working to a programme, send the planting schedule and we will plan lifting and shipping around it. Where a design calls for something outside our usual range, we source it through the nursery network we have worked with for years, given reasonable notice.
Supply grades
| Grade | Overall height | Clear trunk | Spread | Caliper (min) | Grown in | Root ball |
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| Small | 1500 mm | 1000 mm | 1000 mm | 30 mm | 40 L | 100% coco peat |
| Medium | 2500 mm | 1500 mm | 1500 mm | 50 mm | 100 L | 100% coco peat |
| Large | 4000 mm | 1500 mm | 2000 mm | 80 mm | 300 L | 100% coco peat |
| Extra large | 5000 mm | 1500 mm | 3000 mm | 100 mm | 600 L | 30% cleaned soil / 70% coco peat |