Carved candles. Collection Plumeria (size 7 11 cm)

Plumeria is a genus of flowering plants in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae. It contains seven or eight species of mainly deciduous shrubs and small trees. The genus, originally spelled Plumeria, is named in honor of the seventeenthcentury French botanist Charles Plumier, who traveled to the New World documenting many plant and animal species. The common name frangipani comes from a sixteenthcentury marquess of the noble family in Italy who invented a plumeriascented perfume.