Adenium Obesum Wild

Grown by john lucas in photo of tradewinds south nursery florida.

Adenium obesum wild. Another population supposedly of the same species occurs in tanzania southern kenya and northern mozambique. Adenium obesum is a species of flowering plant in the dogbane family apocynaceae that is native to the sahel regions south of the sahara from mauritania and senegal to sudan and tropical and subtropical eastern and southern africa and arabia. Seeds for sale starting at 640. A wild collected adenium obesum in joan grumbleys left garden near mombasa kenya.

Although there are several species adenium obesum is the one thats frequently grown as an ornamental. Can even be grown in sunny area of apartment. Plumeria hoyas cactus succulents and tropicalnbsp. Discover the desert rose adenium adeniums are a species of flowering plant native to sub saharan africa and the southern part of the arabian peninsula.

Obesumif one recognizes more than one species. Advantages of adenium obesum bloom very often. It is a local or morphological form of adenium obesum but commonly used to be know as a separate species and very popular with fat plant collectors. Common names for adeniums include sabi star kudu mock azalea impala lily and or course desert rose.

Adenium arabicum ia a remarkable succulent plant with a grotesquely swollen trunk which resembles a miniature baobab tree. Great online source for adenium obesum rare flowering succulents hoya plants bonsai adeniums and growing helpp padeniumrose company provides unusual rosy desert rose plants tropical and other rare. Padeniumrose company llc is a 100 family run nursery who specializes in exotic plants including rare adenium plantsnbsp. However growthand flowering seem to be suppressed by temperatures consistently above 100f 38c.

One occurs nearly all the way across africa in a broad band south of the sahara from senegal to sudan and kenya. The caudexes are underground. Worry free under proper conditions you can go on vacations the adenium will still be alive. A dry deciduous or evergreen succulent shrub to about 3 m tall widely distributed in dry regions from subsaharan africa to the arabian peninsula.

The name of the genus adenium is the latinization of the local name oddaejn of aden and refers to the place where the plant was originally recovered. The adenium obesum forssk roem. In any case neither of these can properly be called a. They are succulents so require less watering.

Adenium obesum near nairobi kenya. Some of these wild plants can be underwhelming. Fairly disease resistant. Can be easily trained as bonsai style.

1819 is native to the warmest and most arid areas of tropical africa chad ethiopia guinea kenya somaliland mali niger nigeria senegal tanzania uganda and to the arab peninsula saudi arabia oman yemen where it lives in an ample variety of soils.