ADENIUM SPECIES

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ADENIUM
  1. Adenium arabicum Balf.f. = A. obesum
is a species of plant commonly used for bonsai and cultivated for its leaves, growth form and flowering characteristics.The leaves of this species have a broad surface. Leaves also tend to be large and somewhat leathery in appearance. Growth form is squat and fat, with a definite caudex and without much differentiation between trunk and branches. Skin is purple to dark brown color. Flowers range from pink to reddish pink. 

  1. Adenium boehmianum Schinz - (Namibia, Angola)
The Bushman Poison is a poisonous succulent endemic to the mostly dry regions of northern Namibia and southern Angola.The San people boil the root sap and latex to prepare arrow poison, which is sufficient for hunting large mammals, as it contains strong cardiotoxic effects.The leaves, borne only for three months a year, are arranged spirally and are clustered near the branch tips. A plant will flower for only a few weeks in winter.The oblong fruit releases many seeds through a longitudinal slit, which due to their lateral tufts, can be dispersed by wind. 

  1. Adenium multiflorum Klotzsch. (Southern Africa, from Zambia south)
Adenium multiflorum is small, succulent tree native to central and eastern Southern Africa. Like other members of thesucculent Apocynaceae family, A. multiflorum has a milky latex with toxic alkaloids, specifically Cardiac glycosides . This latex is used as an arrow poison and as a fish stunning poison. 

  1. Adenium obesum (Forssk.) Roem. & Schult. - widespread from Senegal to Somalia, and also Arabian Peninsula
Adenium obesum is a species of flowering plant in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, that is native to the Sahel regions, south of the Sahara (from Mauritania and Senegal to Sudan), and tropical and subtropical eastern and southern Africa and Arabia. Common names include Sabi star, kudu, mock azalea, impala lily and desert rose. 

  1. Adenium oleifolium Stapf - South Africa, Botswana, Namibia
Adenium oleifolium is a species of flowering plant in the dogbane family. 

  1. Adenium swazicum Stapf (Eastern South Africa)
Adenium swazicum is a species of flowering plant in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, that is native to the lowveld ofSwaziland and the Mpumalanga province of South Africa.