Thai Botanic · Project plant supply
Plumeria alba
Plumeria alba supplied from Thailand for landscape projects, with mature size, nursery grades, site tolerance, root-ball preparation and export notes.
White frangipani, temple tree · Apocynaceae · Deciduous small tree
The white-flowered frangipani, scented in the evening and flowering through the warm months on bare or lightly leafed branches. Slower and more upright than Plumeria rubra, with narrower leaves and a cleaner white flower, and the species most often specified where the planting is meant to read as calm rather than colourful.
Specification
| Mature height | 5–8 m |
|---|---|
| Crown spread | 3–5 m (indicative) |
| Reference caliper grades | 80–140 mm in the catalogue grades below. Quantities and selected grade are confirmed at order. Caliper is trunk diameter measured 1.0 m above the root collar. |
| Root-ball diameter | Up to approximately 65 cm for large trees; confirm for the selected grade. |
| Growth rate | Slow to moderate |
| Habit | Deciduous, open and sculptural |
| Flowering | White with a yellow throat, strongly scented in the evening, through the warm months |
Landscape use
Hotel forecourts, courtyards, pool surrounds and entrance planting, where the branch structure is as much the point as the flower. It carries heat and reflected glare well and asks for very little water once established, which makes it a reliable choice in Gulf schemes.
Place it where the evening scent is met — beside a terrace, a path or a doorway. Its sap is milky and the leaf drop is seasonal, so it sits better in planted beds than over open water.
Site tolerance
| Drought | High |
|---|---|
| Salinity | Moderate — established plants take coastal exposure |
| Wind | Moderate — branches are brittle when very exposed |
| Soil | Free-draining sandy or stony soils. Will not take waterlogging. |
| Heat | Very high |
| USDA zone | 10–12 |
Export notes
Supplied root-balled and wrapped. Frangipani travels well because it tolerates a period without leaves, and it is among the easiest species in the catalogue to ship long distances. See export and compliance.
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
| SKU | Grade | Min height | Min spread | Min clear trunk | Grown in | Caliper (mm) | Root-ball medium |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SKU-000102 | Large | 3.5–4.5 m | 2.0 m | 0.8–1.0 m | 300 L | 80 | 100% coco peat |
| SKU-000103 | Extra large | 5.5 m | 3.0 m | 0.8–1.0 m | 600 L | 100 | 100% coco peat |
| SKU-000104 | Pathway | 5.5–6.5 m | 3.0–4.0 m | 0.8–1.0 m | 1000 L | 130–140 | 30% soil / 70% coco peat |
Clear trunk is 0.8–1.0 m at every grade; selection also considers crown and branch form.