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This is A. b.
var. swazicum.
Photo by: Tim Harvey. |
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This member of the Apocynaceae
family was described by Hans
Schinz in 1888. It is found in the western part og southern
Africa, from Namibia to 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 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 |
