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Adenium
obesum (Forssk.) Roem. & Schult.
Synonym
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Adenium arabicum
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Family
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Apocynaceae
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Local name
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English- Desert Rose
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Flowering and fruiting
period
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November-May
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Distribution
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Native of tropical Africa
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Distribution in Kerala
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All
districts
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Habitat
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Grown
as garden plant
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IUCN
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Least concerned
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Endemic/Exotic
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Exotic
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Uses
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Used for bonsai and cultivated for its
leaves, growth form and flowering characteristics. The leaves of this species
have a broad surface.
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Key botanical characters:
Succulent fleshy, briefly
deciduous shrubs trunk often swollen at base. Leaves simple, alternate,
spirally-arranged, mostly crowded together at the ends of the branches, 5-10
x 2-5 cm, spathulate to obovate, or oblong to obovate, glabrous, coriaceous,
apex acute, mucronate or rounded, the base attenuate and faintly decurrent to
the subsessile petiole. Flowers in terminal corymbs. Calyx 5-lobed, lobes
acuminate, 2-4 mm long. Corolla salver-form, 5-7cm long, deep purplish red,
through pink to white or combinations thereof often with a pink to crimson
border, margin is wavy or crinkled. Fruits are slender follicles each up to
10 cm; seeds many, narrowly cylindric, brown with long silky golden-brown
pappus at each ends.
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