ADENIUM BOEHMIANUM
Author:
Hans Schinz, 1888
Family:
APOCYNACEAE
Origin:
Elevation:
Publisher:
Rowley, G. D. (n.d.). In: Repert. Pl. Succ. (I. O. S.) 29: 3 (1978 Publ. 1980).
Collection number:
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Thickness:
50 Centimetres
Height:
2 Metres
Propagate:
Seeds
CITES:
Synonyms:
Adenium boehmianum var. swazicum.= Adenium swazicum, Otto Stapf, 1907.
Adenium obesum subsp. boehmianum, G.D.Rowley
This member of the Apocynaceae family was described by Hans Schinz in 1888. It is found in the western part of southern Africa, from Namibia into Angola, growing in a well drained soil with some water and lots of sun. The caudex disappears with age. The plant can grow up to two metres or more. The genera is n amed after the Yemen city of Aden.
The species name after G. R. Böhmer, a German botanist. The subspecies; swazicum is the former Adenium swazicum Otto Stapf 1907, now described by Gordon Douglas Rowley in 1974. It is found in the eastern southern Africa: Eastern Swaziland, South Africa and Mozambique. It has a bigger caudex; up to one meter in diameter. Those I found had not really a caudex, but it might have been young plants - all of them. They were found with several hundred meters apart in several populations.
Flower
Pink - Deep Pink
Soil
Mix
Water
Medium
Sun
Maximum
