My Adenium - Caring and Growing

Discover the world of adenium with all its secrets, from how to plant them to expert details, such as substrates to be used and how to pollinate, etc.

Entering the world of adenium is to be part of a magical world, delicate, tenuous, soothing, because you are absorbed in your caudex with insinuating forms.

You will learn to generate the necessary conditions the adenium need, from seed to fattening caudex and pruning and grafting techniques in the Apocynaceae family. You will also learn how to pollinate and collect.

If you like dramatically gorgeous plants requiring very little in the way of care, you cannot go wrong with Adenium Obesum – the most common Desert Rose plant.

There are explained several topics like depending on availability of water, amount of sun, soil conditions, proper care and so on, wild Adenium can grow as a short, plump tree, a bushy shrub or a tall, leggy plant.

This carefree succulent boasts an unusual trunk (caudex) shape coupled with bunches of beautiful, colorful, trumpet-shaped flowers in a wide variety of colors and color combinations.

Desert Rose (Adenium obesum) is not a rose at all. It is a deciduous succulent plant.The number of variations amongst wild species is tremendous and unknown.