Plumeria
Plumeria rubra
The flower of the tropics: big clusters of highly fragrant blooms from late spring into fall, on a fast-growing small tree. Give it full sun and soil that drains well, and bring it in or protect it wherever frost comes.
- Mature size
- 15 × 15 ft
- 4.5 × 4.5 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 10b–11b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to medium
- Blooms
- May–Nov
Plumeria at its mature size
A mature Plumeria grows to about 15 ft tall and 15 ft wide, taller than most people.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: Green Thumb Nursery, UW–Madison Extension.
Through the year
What Plumeria looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
Dormant · Dec–Apr
Bare stout blunt branches, leafless in winter.
In flower · May–Nov
Clusters of fragrant white flowers with yellow centres at the branch tips.
Growing Plumeria
- Grows well in
- The Southeast and California.
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Good for
- Small space, drought tolerant, fragrant, and fast growing
- Leaves
- Drops its leaves in winter
- Native to
- Tropical America
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Plumeria, that’s about 15 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Plumeria in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.