ADENIUM OBESUM

This is the flowers of my own. A larger one from the Philippines.

This is how it look a bit larger.

The seeds. It is real popular in culture on Bali. Bali flowers. J. J. Roemer & J. A.Schultes, 1819 APOCYNACEAE Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Socotra, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Yemen Mix Medium - Maximum Maximum 1 Meter 40-600 Meters Pink / White Seeds/Cuttings Elephants Foot, Desert Rose Pachypodium obesum, G. Don ex A. De Candolle, 1844. Adenium arabicum, Balf.f. Adenium arboreum, Ehrenb. Adenium coetaneum, Stapf, 1902 Adenium honghel, Lindl. Adenium micranthum, Stapf Adenium obesum subsp. somalense, G.D.Rowley. Adenium obesum subsp. swazicum, G.D.Rowley. Adenium socotranum, Vierh. Adenium somalense, Balf.f. Adenium speciosum, Fenzl Adenium tricholepi,s Chiov. Cameraria obesa, Spreng. Nerium obesum, Forssk. 1775. Belonging to the Apocynaceae family, given this name by Johann Jakob Roemer and Joseph August Schultes in 1819, found in Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Socotra, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda and Yemen. It preferring a well drained soil, a fair amount of water and lots of sun. The trunk will get up to one or even two meter in diameter, and the plant will grow from 40 centimetres op to six meters. It can be reproduced both by cutting and seeds.

The sap is poison, and it may drop its leaves in winter/dry. It can't stand frost! The flowers are trumpet shaped and can vary from red over pink to white.

The genera is n amed after the Yemen city of Aden. The species after the fat stem. Several sub species: boehmianum, multiflorum, obesum, oleifolium (=subterranean caudex), socotranum, somalense and swazicum. Cuttings must dry for a week, before getting planted. I bought mine in Bangkok, Thailand!

This is one of the original colour of the flowers, but now you can get from white over pink to blood red. Other colours from Mbuyu. Fruit on Bali.