garden flower by r08r17
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Description
took this 2 weeks agon in my grandmother's garden, undergoes a little photoshop. and walla this is what i've got...
a short trivia:
Adenium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, containing a single species, Adenium obesum, also known as Sabi Star, Kudu or Desert-rose. It is native to tropical and subtropical eastern and southern Africa and Arabia.
It is an evergreen succulent shrub in tropical climates and semi-deciduous to deciduous in colder climates, is also dependent on the subspecies or cultivar. Growing to 1-3 m in height, with pachycaul stems and a stout, swollen basal caudex. The leaves are spirally arranged, clustered toward the tips of the shoots, simple entire, leathery in texture, 5-15 cm long and 1-8 cm broad. The flowers are tubular, 2-5 cm long, with the outer portion 4-6 cm diameter with five petals, resembling those of other related genera such as Plumeria and Nerium. The flowers tend to red and pink, often with a whitish blush outward of the throat.
Adenium is a popular houseplant in temperate regions. It requires a sunny location and a minimum indoor temperature in winter of 10 °C. It thrives on a xeric watering regime as required by cacti. Adenium is typically propagated by seed or stem cuttings. The numerous hybrids are propagated mainly by grafting onto seedling rootstock. While plants grown from seed are more likely to have the swollen caudex at a young age, with time many cutting-grown plants cannot be distinguished from seedlings.
The plant exudes a highly toxic sap which is used by some peoples, such as the Akie in Tanzania, to coat arrow-tips for hunting. (source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenium)
Comments (8)
tofi
A superb capture! How very radiant and beautiful, with the utmost perfect background to contrast this beauty ever so magnificently! Refreshing water droplets are so lovely, and most welcomed! Superb beauty of nature in Grandma's obviously stunning and sensationally maintained garden!
UteBigSmile
This "Hibiscus Flower" looks great, I have some on my terrasse, if you touch them, they are also feeling very soft, its a pitty that their lifetime is not long enough!!! Hug's Ute
2121
beautiful image, love the info as well
durleybeachbum
Superb! i had no idea it is poisonous till now.
mikeerson
Pretty flower, excellent shot.
r08r17
thanks for the comment...been a long time since my last post and thanks so much for the appreciation...
icerian
A lot of energy is in this magic flower. Thank you for sharing it. Excellent result. 5+
ontar1
Gorgeous flower, outstanding capture and work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!