Apocynaceae
Desert rose
Adenium obesum
- Family
- Apocynaceae
- Genus
- Adenium
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Common names
By language (29)
- Arabic
- العَدنة, شجرة العدن, شجرة العدنة, عَدَنَة
- arz
- العدنه
- Bambara
- Kungonsiranin
- Bhojpuri
- एडेनियम ओबेसम
- Bulgarian
- Пустинна роза
- Chinese
- 富贵花, 沙漠玫瑰, 天宝花, 沙蔷薇, 索马里沙漠玫瑰, 阿拉伯沙漠玫瑰
- Croatian
- Pustinjska ruža
- Czech
- Adénium ztloustlé
- Danish
- Ørkenrose
- Dutch
- Woestijnroos
- English
- Desert rose, Desert-rose, Mock azalea
- Estonian
- Tüse adeenium
- Finnish
- Adenium, Aavikkoruusu, Adenia
- French
- Baobab chacal, Rose du désert
- Hausa
- Kariya
- Hebrew
- אדניום נפוח, אדונית המדבר, אדניון נפוח, ורד המדבר
- Igbo
- Desert rose, Mock azalea
- Indonesian
- Kemboja jepang
- Japanese
- アデニウム・オベスム
- lah
- روہی گلاب
- Macedonian
- Пустинска роза
- Malayalam
- അഡിനിയം ഒബെസെം
- Persian
- آدنیوم آبسوم, آدنیوم عربی
- Russian
- Адениум тучный, Адениум толстый
- Slovak
- Adénium hrubé
- Slovenian
- Tolsti adenij, Puščavska roža
- Ukrainian
- Аденіум гладкий
- Vietnamese
- Sứ sa mạc
- Wolof
- Liisugar
Synonyms
- Adenium arabicum Balf.f.
- Adenium arboreum Ehrenb.
- Adenium coetaneum Stapf
- Adenium honghel Lindl.
- Adenium micranthum Stapf
- Adenium obesum f. albiflorum Lodé
- Adenium obesum subsp. socotranum (Vierh.) Lavranos
- Adenium obesum subsp. somalense (Balf.f.) G.D.Rowley
- Adenium socotranum Vierh.
- Adenium somalense Balf.f.
- Adenium somalense var. caudatipetalum Chiov.
- Adenium somalense var. crispum Chiov.
- Adenium speciosum Fenzl
- Adenium tricholepis Chiov.
- Cameraria obesa Spreng.
- Nerium obesum Forssk.
- Pachypodium obesum A.DC.
Flowers
- In flower
- May to October (from 374 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Morten Ross, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: ZSM, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Dinesh Valke from Thane, India, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: dhfischer, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Dinesh Valke from Thane, India, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Claude Kolwelter, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Milton, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Manuel Schwarz, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Julien Renoult, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: dhfischer, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: thibaudaronson, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Thibaud Aronson, CC BY-SA 4.0, from iNaturalist
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.