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Adenium obesum
Impala Lily (Adenium obesum) is the best known of the South African adeniums. It flowering 2 times a year (form November to January and from April to May). Their colors are white, pink, crimson, red and bicoloured flowers that cover these plants when in full bloom. Their striking forms and beautiful flowers borne for a long period make them excellent garden and container plants. It is a deciduous succulent shrub or small tree, 0.5-3 m tall. Stems arise from a large underground rootstock. The bark is shiny grey to brown, with poisonous watery latex. For most of the year the plants do not have flowers or leaves. The leaves are up to 15cm long, shiny green above and pale below, usually much broader towards the tip, and are carried in clusters at the growing tips of the branches. They are shed before flowering.
East of Africa near Kenya and Tanzania. In a Dry area.
I take a picture at home. It's hight is about 0.4-0.5m.
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Wow, I've never seen anything like this before. Beautiful photo.
"Impala lily and Desert rose" is the same flower. They're called Desert Rose because, It can alive in dry or very dry area.
These are close to what's called a desert rose here in the states. http://www.aspca.org/Pet-care/poison-con...
I saw one in South Africa and there were indeed no leaves; just the flower. Was this imported from Africa and then they keep their leaves in Thailand?