Adenium obesum
Adenium

Adenium flower

Adenium obesum

  • Common name: Impala lily, desert rose

  • Family: Apocynacea

  • Country of Origin: E. Africa: Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda

  • Accession information: ? from UC Davis collection prior to 1994.

  • Accession number: B1994.U.2

  • Culture: Allow to dry thoroughly between waterings.

  • Poisonous Plant Parts: Not for Human Consumption.

    Thick-stemmed xerophyte with cardiac glycosides effective as fish & other poisons. "Specially protected" in Zimbabwe.

    Source: The Plant-Book by D.J. Mabberly.