Adenium obesum (Forssk.) Roem. & Schult.
| Family: | APOCYNACEAE |
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| Sub-Family: | Not available | ||||
| English Name: | Desert Rose | ||||
| Synonym: | Cameraria obesa (Forssk.)Spreng. | ||||
| Common Name: | Impala lily | ||||
| Flowering & Fruiting Period: | November-May | ||||
| Distribution: | Native of tropical Africa | ||||
| Habitat: | Grown as garden plant | ||||
| Uses: | Ornamental | ||||
| Key Characteristics: | 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. | ||||