Adenium obesum Roem. & Schult.

Shrub or small tree, 2–many-branched, 0.4–6 m high; trunk sometimes bulbous at the extreme base, up to 1 m in diameter (to 2 m elsewhere), bark grey, smooth.. Leaves sessile to sub-petiolate; blade obovate to linear, 3–12(–17) cm long, 0.2–6 cm wide, rounded and mucronate or emarginate at the apex, cuneate at the base, pubescent to glabrous; petiole 0–4 mm long.. Inflorescence 1–2.5 cm long, in dense terminal cymes; bracts linear to narrowly oblong, 3–8 mm long; pedicels 5–9 mm long.. Flowers with sepals 0.5–1.1 mm long, pubescent; corolla pink to red; tube reddish pink to white suffused with pink, sometimes with red stripes within the throat, 20–50 mm long, 9–17 mm wide, inside with velutinous glandular hairs on the main veins; lobes 9–30 mm long, 5–25 mm wide, apiculate to mucronate; corona 3–5 mm long; stamens barely included or exserted; pistil 11–20 mm long; pistil head 1–1.5 mm long.. Fruit grey to pale grey-brown, sometimes fringed with pink, 11–22 cm long, 0.9–2 cm wide; seeds 10–14 mm long, 2–4 mm wide, with tuft of hairs 25–35 mm long.. Fig. 23 (p. 68).

Rocky or sandy soils in savannah, dry bushland or woodland, and wooded grassland at elevations up to 2,100 metres.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.