Adenium
| Habit | shrub
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|---|---|---|
| Height: | ⇕ | 3 m"m" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 3. |
| Lifespan: | ⌛ | perennial |
| Origin: | ✈ | S&E Africa, Arabia |
| Poisonous: | ☠ | sap poisonous if ingested |
| Exposure: | ☼ | sun |
|---|---|---|
| Water: | ◍ | moderate, less when dormant |
| Features: | ✓ | flowers, houseplant |
| Minimum Temp: | ☃ | 50°F283.15 K <br />10 °C <br />509.67 °R <br /> |
| Sunset Zones: | 23-27, indoors |
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Adenium > |
Adenium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, containing a single species, Adenium obesum, also known as Sabi Star, Kudu or Desert-rosewp.
Cultivation
Adenium do not make great house plants. They are best grown in pots in full sun. The planting medium should allow excellent drainage. Too much water will rot the roots and Caudex
Propagation
Adenium can be easily propagated by seed, cuttings and grafting.
Pests and diseases
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Species
The genus Adenium has been held to contain as many as twelve species. These are considered by other authors to be subspecies or varieties. A late-20th-century classification by Plazier recognizes five species.[1] Species include:
- Adenium arabicum Balf.f. (Arabia)
- Adenium boehmianum Schinz (Namibia, Angola)
- Adenium multiflorum Klotzsch. (Southern Africa, from Zambia south)
- Adenium obesum (Forssk.) Roem. & Schult.
- Adenium obesum subsp. obesum (from Mauritania and Senegal to Sudan)
- Adenium obesum subsp. oleifolium (South Africa, Botswana)
- Adenium obesum subsp. socotranum (Socotra)
- Adenium obesum subsp. somalense (Eastern Africa)
- Adenium swazicum Stapf (Eastern South Africa)[1][2]
Gallery
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Adenium obesum
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References
External links
- w:Adenium. Some of the material on this page may be from Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons license.
- Adenium QR Code (Size 50, 100, 200, 500)
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Stoffel Petrus Bester (June 2004). "Adenium multiflorum Klotzsch". South African National Biodiversity Institute's plant information website.
- ↑ "GRIN Species Records of Adenium". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved on 2010-06-26.
