Author: |
J. J. Roemer & J. A.Schultes,
1819 |
Family: |
APOCYNACEAE |
Origin: |
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 |
Soil: |
Mix |
Water:
|
Medium - Maximum |
Sun: |
Maximum |
Thickness: |
1
Meter |
Height: |
40-600
Meters |
Flower:
|
Pink / White |
Propagate: |
Seeds/Cuttings |
Names:
|
Elephants
Foot, Desert Rose |
Synonyms: |
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 named
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.
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