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Adenium multiflorum - desert rose

Kenya. Baringo county.

 

BARINGO LAKE and the POKOT PEOPLE VIDEO

 

 

Morning guided hike with Augustine. (local guide, living in the village next to Soi Safari lodge

 

Adenium multiflorum is small, succulent tree native to central and eastern Southern Africa. Like other members of the succulent Apocynaceae family, A. multiflorum has a milky latex with toxic alkaloids, specifically Cardiac glycosides . This latex is used as an arrow poison and as a fish stunning poison.

 

It is sometimes treated as a variety or subspecies of Adenium obesum

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenium_multiflorum

 

 

 

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Uploaded on November 17, 2018
Taken on October 25, 2018