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Adenium boehmianum Schinz

Adenium boehmianum is closely related related to A. swazicum, and occurs on the other side of southern Africa in Namibia and southern Angola. It is an erect arborescent shrub, usually with barely succulent stems and only modestly swollen roots. In the northern end of its range it develops thick conical trunks. The leaves are the second largest in the genus. The flowers have broad petals that usually overlap, and are borne from late summer into early winter. This species shares a diagnostic trait with A. swazicum: petals are of uniform pink with no fading toward the dark throat, and very short anther appendages. A. boehmianum is uncommon in cultivation.

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Adenium boehmianum

A. boehmianum at the Huntington Botanical Gardens. The plant is about six feet tall.

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A. boehmianum flowers are usually circular in outline. Notice that the petal color does not fade toward the throat.

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Flowers and foliage of A. boehmianum.

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Adenium boehmianum

Flowers and foliage of A. boehmianum.

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Right: An example of pink flowers of A. boehmianum. Photo: Cheryl Acford

Adenium boehmianum in the Wild

Adenium boehmianum

Adenium boehmianum in Namibia. Photo: Dan Mahr

Adenium boehmianum

Adenium boehmianum in Namibia. Photo: Dan Mahr

Adenium boehmianum

Adenium boehmianum in Namibia. This one has a well developed conical trunk. Photo: Dan Mahr

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Adenium boehmianum in Namibia. Photo: Dan Mahr

Adenium boehmianum

Adenium boehmianum in Namibia. Photo: Dan Mahr

Adenium boehmianum in Namibia. Photo: Robert H. Webb

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Adenium boehmianum

Adenium boehmianum at Ojihipa, Namibia (Angolan border on the Kunene River). Photo: Ernst Van Jaarsveld.

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Adenium boehmianum

Flowers of Adenium boehmianum in Namibia on the Kunene River near Epupa Falls. Photo: Ernst Van Jaarsveld.

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Adenium boehmianum in northern Namibia, exhibiting a splendid succulent trunk. Photo: Ernst Van Jaarsveld.

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Adenium boehmianum near Okabadjia, Namibia. Photo: John Lavranos.

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