Naming
* ''caterpillar tree''⤷ ''pagoda tree''
⤷ ''pigeon wood''
⤷ ''nosegay tree''
⤷ ''white frangipani''
⤷ ''frangipanier à fleurs blanches''
⤷ ''Lee La Wa Dee''
⤷ ''châmpéi sâ''
⤷ ''hoa chăm pa''
Uses
''P. alba'' is often cultivated as an ornamental plant. In Cambodia pagodas especially choose this shrub, with the flowers used in ritual offerings to the deities, they are sometimes used to make necklaces which decorate coffins. In addition, the flowers are edible and eaten as fritters, while the heart of the wood is part of a traditional medical preparation taken as a vermifuge or as a laxative.References:
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