Desert rose
അഡിനിയം ഒബെസെം
Adenium obesum (Forssk.) Roem. & Schult.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 1.8 m
- wide
- 1.2 m
Apocynaceae
Also called Mock azalea, Impala lily, Desert Rose, Desert-rose, Mock Azalea
Formerly Adenium arabicum, Adenium arboreum, Adenium coetaneum, Adenium honghel, and 7 more
When it flowers
Flowers June to April in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Semisucculent shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Desert or dry shrublandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- W. Trop. Africa to Arabian Pen. and TanzaniaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 91 cm to 2.7 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 91 cm to 1.5 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- White, red, pinkRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- 7.2 °C (USDA zone 11b)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension 4.4 °C; Wikipedia 10 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 沙漠玫瑰, 天寶花, 天宝花
- Portuguese
- Rosa-do-deserto
- Spanish
- Rosa del Desierto
- Finnish
- adenium
- German
- Wüstenrose
- Czech
- adénium tučné
- Japanese
- アデニウム
- Indonesian
- Kamboja Jepang, Kemboja Jepang
- French
- Baobab du chacal
- Thai
- ชวนชม
- Russian
- Адениум тучный
- Lithuanian
- Paprastasis tinūtras
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Adenium obesum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.