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Adenium obesum (Forssk.) Roem. & Schult.

Synonym                    : Cameraria obesa (Forssk.) Spreng.

Family                        : Apocynaceae

Local Names              : Desert Rose, Impala Lily 

Flowering and fruiting period: November-May

Distribution: Native of tropical Africa

Habitat: Grown as a garden plant

IUCN status: Least Concern

Endemic: No

Uses: Ornamental

Key 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, spathulate to obovate. Flowers in terminal corymbs. Calyx 5-lobed, lobes acuminate. Corolla salver-form, 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; seeds many, narrowly cylindric, brown with long silky golden-brown pappus at each ends.