Sunny Desert Rose
This bonsai plant has fleshy roots and intimate postures. Then it blooms in rosy splendor! I feel like I'm back in art school whenever I look at it.
Desert Rose is a wonderful plant to bonsai. I have had one plant for 20 years and every year I cut it back to the fleshy root/stem. And every Spring it flowers profusely like some ancient bonsai cherry tree but much easier and more enjoyable. And before it flowers again, it looks like the fleshy human body image below.
Adenium obesum is a species of flowering plant in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, that is native to the Sahel regions, south of the Sahara (from Mauritania and Senegal to Sudan), and tropical and subtropical eastern and southern Africa and Arabia. Common names include Sabi star, kudu, mock azalea, impala lily and desert rose.
It is an evergreen or drought-deciduous succulent shrub (which can lose its leaves during cold spells). It can grow to 1–3 m (3.3–9.8 ft) in height, with pachycaul stems and a stout, swollen basal caudex. The leaves are spirally arranged, clustered toward the tips of the shoots, simple entire, leathery in texture, 5–15 cm (2.0–5.9 in) long and 1–8 cm (0.39–3.15 in) broad. The flowers are tubular with five petals, Plumeria and Nerium. The flowers are frequently red or pink, often with a whitish blush on the outer side of the throat.
Desert Rose, Adenium Obesum Multiflorum ( A. Multiflorum)
Sunny Desert Rose
This bonsai plant has fleshy roots and intimate postures. Then it blooms in rosy splendor! I feel like I'm back in art school whenever I look at it.
Desert Rose is a wonderful plant to bonsai. I have had one plant for 20 years and every year I cut it back to the fleshy root/stem. And every Spring it flowers profusely like some ancient bonsai cherry tree but much easier and more enjoyable. And before it flowers again, it looks like the fleshy human body image below.
Adenium obesum is a species of flowering plant in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, that is native to the Sahel regions, south of the Sahara (from Mauritania and Senegal to Sudan), and tropical and subtropical eastern and southern Africa and Arabia. Common names include Sabi star, kudu, mock azalea, impala lily and desert rose.
It is an evergreen or drought-deciduous succulent shrub (which can lose its leaves during cold spells). It can grow to 1–3 m (3.3–9.8 ft) in height, with pachycaul stems and a stout, swollen basal caudex. The leaves are spirally arranged, clustered toward the tips of the shoots, simple entire, leathery in texture, 5–15 cm (2.0–5.9 in) long and 1–8 cm (0.39–3.15 in) broad. The flowers are tubular with five petals, Plumeria and Nerium. The flowers are frequently red or pink, often with a whitish blush on the outer side of the throat.
Desert Rose, Adenium Obesum Multiflorum ( A. Multiflorum)