Family: Apocynaceae •
Genus: Adenium •
Species: obesum •
Country of Origin: Africa and Arabia •
Common Names: Desert Rose, Sabi Star, Kudu •
My Desert Rose. My sister got this for my mom, probably ten years ago. She got bored with it and I inherited it, woo-hoo, lucky me. This may be one of my oldest plants. It flowers a couple times a year and the caudex keeps getting bigger and bigger! For this reason, I keep this in a small pot to enlarge the caudex. This is one cool reason to grow one of these plants. Also, I've trimmed it over the years to keep the shape I want. The beautiful flowers are lightly fragrant and reminiscent of cinnamon. This is one of the plants I use an organic time release fertilizer on twice a year. All these things make this is one of my favorite container plants.
Adenium obesum aka Desert Rose by Eric Bronson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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