Desert Rose

bass

Desert Rose. About 20" high. Blooms throughout summer. A tropical Succulent native to the island of socatra south of Yemen.

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Here's the back view.

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3069James

hi how do you get it to bloom like that i've had one since last spring and it still has'nt bloomed yet any advice would be appreatiated

susieq

Hello Bass,
you might include in your description that the desert rose is also poisonous.
Yours is lovely.
susieq

bass

James,
I noticed that it will only bloom if it went through a cool spell. If it's in a spot with high light and it goes through a cool temperature down to 60 deg. It will bloom immediatly. It usually only blooms when in the summer. I guess the long day light hours will let it bloom.
Susie, didn't know that it is poisonous. I guess I can't eat it... Are the flowers the poisonous part?

Bass

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Craig Cowing

Mine comes indoors since I'm in a colder climate, and it looses its leaves. It's still bare now. I put it out in the sun and soon it is growing new leaves and then flowers.

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susieq

Greetings Bass,
I don't know about the flowers but the sappy stuff they leak when cut, might cause skin irritations and is very bad to ingest, not that any right thinking adult human would do that, but children and pets should be watched. I have two very large desert roses in planters out in the yard. They are so large that I didn't even try to move them when it got cold this winter. We get the occasional frost warnings here and I pull the tropical bonsai inside overnight but not those guys.....and they didn't seem to suffer for it. Blooming like crazy right now and bloom all summer long. They look very nice in bonsai pots but I have a hard time thinking of a succulant as a bonsai. I just enjoy them as colorful additions to the back yard.
Best wishes,
susieq

3069James

bass thanks for the info i new well i found out this winter they go through a dormancy next year i'll put it in a coolroom for the winter maybe i'll still have flowers this year it's just starting to grow it's leaves back

waltseed

Bass
The whole plant is the poisonous part.
Beautiful plant, Bass. Mine is a couple inches shorter. Actually I have 3, my largest is the one a couple inches shorter than yours. But mine is fatter.
The first one I ever saw, I was in the Peace Corps in Niger. There was a desert rose (Adenium) at a crossroads on the research farm where I worked. It was about 2.5 m tall, and the base was about 1 m wide.
I asked about it. No one knew where it was from or what it was called.
It was only abut 4 years ago that I again saw one. I bought it. It was labled with it's name, so I could finally look up information aobut it.

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