Adenium, often dubbed as desert rose or China rose adds charm to every garden. This ornamental plant with an unusual swollen base and thick green leaves needs less water and more sunlight. Adenium has its origin in the Arabian Peninsula. Slowly it has spread throughout South East Asia for its attractive look and ease of growing. This ornamental plant belongs to the species Apocyanaceae.
Varietal richness
Apart from Adenium obesum, so many other varieties are available in a myriad of colours. The colours of petals are seen single in red, yellow, purple and violet and also in double colours and in double, triple, quadruple and penta layers.
Adenium obesum is the mother plant of all hybrid varieties. This plant with greyish green stem is propagated through seeds. They germinate easily and attain full growth and flowers within one year itself. This is commonly used as rootstock for developing hybrid....
