Adenium obesum “Chubby Tubby”

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Common Name:

Desert Rose

Origin:

East Africa

Description:

Family: Apocynaceae

A beautiful cultivar with an extra fat caudex and stubby stems! This is most likely a hybrid between Adenium obesum, and Adenium arabicum having the squatter form of arabicum, and the larger flowers of obesum.

Cultivation:
Should be watered once every 1 to 2 weeks during the summer, keep dry in winter. The caudex can grow quite rapidly if over potted and kept in extremely well draining medium (mostly pumice), up to several inches a season.

Characteristics:

Temperature: Hardy to 40F

Full Sun

Extra Chunky

Low Water

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