Adenium boehmianum Schinz

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Apocynaceae > Adenium

Characteristics

A shrub. It can grow 5 m tall. The stem is swollen at the base. It has several branches. The leaves are clustered at the ends of the branches. They are broadly oval and 8-14 cm long by 5-8 cm wide. The flowering shoots are at the end. There are several pink to red flowers.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 2.6 - 3.5
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

It is a subtropical plant. It grows in rocky places.
Light -
Soil humidity -
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Hardiness (USDA) -

Usage

Uses animal food environmental use food medicinal poison social use vertebrate poison
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 7 - 14
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 21
Germination luminosity light
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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Productivity -

Images

Adenium boehmianum unspecified picture

Distribution

Adenium boehmianum world distribution map, present in Angola and Namibia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:76360-1
WFO ID wfo-0000763130
COL ID 9Z9L
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 631295
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Synonyms

Adenium obesum subsp. boehmianum Adenium boehmianum