What Is The Scientific Name Of Kalachuchi? (ANSWER)

SCIENTIFIC NAME OF KALACHUCHI – In this topic, we are going to know and identify the scientific name of kalachuchi.

Also known as frangipani, red paucipan, red frangipani, common frangipani, temple tree, or plumeria, it is a plant species of the dogbane family Apocynaceae,

The common name frangipani came from the noble Italian family Frangipani, which is a sixteenth-century marquess of which invented a plumeria-scented perfume.

The term “kalachuchi: on the other hand, might have come from the Mexican term of this plant cacaloxóchitl or cacaloxúchitl, which is derived from the “crow’s flower”.

The plant is native to central Mexico south through Central America to Colombia and Venezuela in South America and is cultivated in the tropical regions of the world.

Kalachuchi has a thick succulent trunk and sausage-like blunt branches which are covered with a thin grey bark. The branches ooze a white latex that can be irritating to the skin and mucous membranes once broken. The latex are known to be toxic but not deadly unless present in large quantities.

Answer

The binomial name of Kalachuchi is Plumeria rubra.

Plumeria is a genus of the dogbane family Apocynaceae. It is named in honor of French botanist and monk Charles Plumier.

The specific epithet rubra, on the other hand, is the Latin term for “red“.