Wet Pink. Desert Rose, Adenium obesum, Mangsit, Senggigi, Lombok, Indonesia
Yes indeed! It was wet and wetter. I arrived on Lombok in a rainstorm and though the monsoon let up a few times, it made today very wet. Not wet enough, though, to keep me indoors.
Always something to see in the Garden. Here's Adenium obesum, Desert Rose. It grows all over the wet and the not-so-wet Tropics but it hails from Yemen. At least that's where it was first collected for description by intrepid Peter Forsskål (1732-1763). A student of Great Carolus Linnaeus, he was appointed a botanist member of the Danish Expedition to Egypt and Yemen, 1761-1763. Adenium was collected at Al Hadiyah in the Hadramaut Province. Forsskål died of malaria during the expedition, but his copious botanical notes were edited by Carsten Niebuhr in 1775. The latter remarks that this Adenium has neither flowers nor leaves in February. No doubt that holds for Yemen conditions; here it's in Full Flower, regardless the rain.
Wet Pink. Desert Rose, Adenium obesum, Mangsit, Senggigi, Lombok, Indonesia
Yes indeed! It was wet and wetter. I arrived on Lombok in a rainstorm and though the monsoon let up a few times, it made today very wet. Not wet enough, though, to keep me indoors.
Always something to see in the Garden. Here's Adenium obesum, Desert Rose. It grows all over the wet and the not-so-wet Tropics but it hails from Yemen. At least that's where it was first collected for description by intrepid Peter Forsskål (1732-1763). A student of Great Carolus Linnaeus, he was appointed a botanist member of the Danish Expedition to Egypt and Yemen, 1761-1763. Adenium was collected at Al Hadiyah in the Hadramaut Province. Forsskål died of malaria during the expedition, but his copious botanical notes were edited by Carsten Niebuhr in 1775. The latter remarks that this Adenium has neither flowers nor leaves in February. No doubt that holds for Yemen conditions; here it's in Full Flower, regardless the rain.