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Adenium oleifolium is a semisucculent shrub from southern Africa in the dogbane family, closely related to the desert rose. Grow it in full sun with fast-draining soil and water sparingly, letting the soil dry out between waterings.
Adenium oleifolium is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae.
The native range of this species is Southern Africa, including Botswana, Cape Provinces, Namibia and Northern Provinces.
Adenium arabicum · Adenium boehmianum · Adenium multiflorum · Desert-rose · Summer impala lily · Desert rose
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Adenium oleifolium by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
