A sun-loving succulent, desert rose (Adenium obesum) is known for its striking blooms in white, pink, red, and purple hues.

Adenium bonsai trees are tropical plants and cannot tolerate cold temperatures. They should be brought indoors during the winter or placed in a greenhouse where the temperature is above 60°F.

"This is the only plant I can think of," said Dimmitt, who has created and named about 200 "cultivars," plants that are derived from stem cuttings rather than seeds. The adenium is sometimes known ...

For decades it was the only kind of adenium grown in Thailand, but in the past 10 years or so, other species and new cultivars were introduced into Thailand. Species' names, like Adenium arabicum ...

Adenium obesium, as they're commonly known ... Leonie says, "They are tough plants, but they're surprisingly sensitive to how much water they get - too much and they'll rot; too little and ...

“If the first frost hits at the end of October or early November, everything will die overnight,” Lucas said, seated in his backyard among a dozen of his 100-odd adenium desert roses. “This could ...

But the passionate gardeners found their thoughts going back to the “forbidden fruit” and soon yielded to temptation, thus buying their first Adenium Obesum. “Unlike other plants we have ...

I’ve loved them for years,” another commented. Another popular desert rose species is adenium multiflorum, which features many flowers and produces a highly-poisonous liquid when a branch is ...

Frank Gardner / BBC Socotran Desert Rose, Adenium Obesum Socrotanum ... Of the island’s 825 plant species, an estimated 307 are endemic, found nowhere else on Earth. Frank Gardner / BBC Socotra ...

Socotran Desert Rose, Adenium Obesum Socrotanum ... Of the island’s 825 plant species, an estimated 307 are endemic, found nowhere else on Earth. Socotra Cormorants, Phalacrocorax Nigrigularis.