An Adenium Website
Plant Sales
This page features rare species and cultivars that will occasionally be available (continental USA only) at sascactus.com. There are two groups of offerings:
1. Superior adenium cultivars that perform well in hot summer/cool winter desert and semiarid climates; most were bred in Tucson, Arizona. The list includes cuttings and grafts of my own best hybrids as well as some created by others that I think are special. Some are clones of outstanding wild-collected plants, and a few that have historical value. The propagules offered range from small cuttings and grafts up to larger groomed specimens.
Most of the adeniums I will offer are from my exclusive breeding line. Almost all commercially available adeniums are A. "obesum" and its hybrids (primarily with crispum). Most are bred for small size to fit into limited living spaces. They have been bred in tropical climates and are not necessarily cold-tolerant. The very popular double-flowered cultivars have been over-selected for flower characteristics, and their stems are usually not strong enough to hold them upright. I have very different goals:
Since 1999 my primary focus has been on plants that can grow large, even to landscape-size. (But they can be kept smaller with hard culture and pruning.) They're tetraploid (4n) hybrids of A. "arabicum" with A. "obesum" and often A. crispum too. Tetraploid plants tend to be more compact, with sturdier stems and thicker leaves, more tolerant of environmental stresses, and more disease resistant. I also select for plant quality - big caudexes and disease resistance, in addition to flowers that are well-shaped, numerous (high flower count per inflorescence), and bloom most or all of the year. These 4n cultivars grow well on their own roots; no grafting is needed.
2. I will offer other outstanding species and hybrids that are rarely available. See a partial listing below.
Contact Brian to be notified by email when plants become available at sascactus.
Adeniums
Click on the adenium name to see cultivar details. Click on the Buy Now button (if present) to go to the sales site and shopping cart.
Other Plants
Commiphora monstruosa
A slow-growing natural bonsai with twisted stems and peeling bark. This 13-year-old plant has been pruned but not trained.
Rooted cuttings available 2025
Hoya imbricata
spotted-leaf form
The vines will cling to almost any rough surface, including concrete. Cuttings take up to a year to establish and begin growing, but can then grow three feet in a month. Plants will be established on cedar boards.
Available summer 2023
Opuntia alta 'Fruit Punch'
An extremely vigorous plant that can attain six feet tall and twice as wide in less than 10 years. Unlike most prickly pears, this clone grows pads throughout the summer.
It flowers massively in April-May; each terminal pad can produce more than 20 buds that open into big purplish-red blooms. More flowers appear sporadically through summer.
Culture: Native to south Texas, so it needs more water than most desert prickly pears. Hardy to at least 12 F.
Origin: Opuntia alta is a hexaploid (6n) species that originated as a natural hybrid between O. engelmannii lindheimeri and O. stricta. In 1999 Tom Wiewandt gave Mark Dimmitt a pad of a plant he collected near McAllen, Texas. It was the most colorful prickly pear he saw there, with reddish-purple flowers. Mark Dimmitt grew about 100 seedlings from this plant, and selected this clone as the best of them.
Note: This is different from the Colorado plant of the same name. It's also different from 'Citrus Punch'.