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Adenium obesum
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Family:
APOCYNACEAE
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Citation: Adenium obesum (Forssk.) Roem. & Schult., Syst. Veg. 4: 411. 1819.
Nerium obesum Forssk., Fl. Aegypt.-Arab. 205. 1775.
Cameraria obesa (Forssk.) Spreng., Syst. Veg. 1: 641. 1824.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Desert Rose
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Desert Rose, Impala Lily
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Description:
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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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
November-May
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grown as garden plant
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Distribution:
Native of tropical Africa
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Rose, Red, White, Pink
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
Yes
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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