#impala lily

[timeless-takes]

A Desert Rose

Photo credit: Eleanor Chua.

Found this Desert Rose (Adenium obesum) in the hot arid patch beside the Hoya House in the botanic gardens.

[beached-boy]

Can’t tame the wild in me 🐾

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[samotage]

[melobotanicsnursery]

Displayed below is the 'Adenium Obesum var. multiflorum' also known in South Africa as the 'Desert Rose' or 'Impala Lily'.

The plant is grown for its unusual trunk shape that is called a caudex and its interesting branching habit. It is a beautiful and abundant flowering shrub with large bell-shaped flowers shaded pink, white or red (or in some cases, all three). The plant flowers mainly in July ,but will also bloom as late as mid-September when in cultivation. (Where temperature and the amount of water given can be done under controlled circumstances)

I've cultivated these plants from seed and out of the surviving (15) seedlings, I've chosen (3) plants to further develop into bonsai trees through the course of a few years. These adeniums are ideal because of their green foliage that can be trained into a canopy form.

The bonsai test subjects have been chosen according to the girth and width of the stems, the amount of foliage on the apex and the growth rate since seed germination - Those are only a few of the desirable qualities that I would look for in the cultivation of adeniums.

The plant has often been compared to a miniature baobab and I can see why.

[thebashfulbotanist]

Adenium obesum, often called the desert rose (although it’s in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, rather than the rose family), photographed in northern Tanzania near Lake Natron. It’s a succulent shrub that often has a swollen base and tends to lose its leaves in the cold (dry) season. 

Their unusual swollen base and pretty flowers make them popular houseplants, and they’re sometimes used for bonsai. In their native range, the presence of cardiac glycosides in this species results in its use for poisoning arrows.

[timeless-takes]

Mock Azalea

Photo credit: Eleanor Chua.

Mock Azalea or Striped Desert Rose (Adenium obesum) blooming in the botanic gardens.

[tsyllaes]

Hummingbirds often have extremely specialised bills for reaching into extremely specific flowers so individual species of both the flowers and the birds have symbiotic relationships. There'll be a plant in Llayad somewhere with a curved trumpet flower for the little turquoise one, and a reeeeeally long, like, red hot poker type thing for the pink one. The one the black and gold one is ruffling around in is an impala lily, which is apparently really good for bonsaiing. So. Imagine a bonsai of this thing in a Llayan castle with little hummingbirds flitting in to feed off it =3

[danykha]

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