Adenium obesum subsp. socotranum

Grower: flowering mid-spring before summer leaves appear. Flowers can be white, pink or red.

Light: full to medium sun exposure. Needs heat to grow and produce flowers

Water: the plant needs a dormant period before flowering in spring. Weekly watering during summer, or whenever the growing medium is dry. Transplant in autumn and winter when the plant is dormant

Soil type: well-draining succulent growing medium

ORIGIN / HISTORY

• This subspecies of Adenium obesum is only found on Socotra, the largest island in an isolated archipelago (an extensive group of islands, a sea or stretch of water having many islands), of the Republic of Yemen
• This island has a dry desert climate with monsoonal winds
• Grows in rocky foothills and escarpments
• It is by far the rarest and most desirable of all succulents, it forms with age more of a bush than a small tree, like a dwarf baobab, the stem or caudex can achieve 2,4m
• This species is also by far the largest in the genus and very slow growing
• These seedlings are raised from seeds in our own nursery
• It may come across as any other Adenium species when at a small size, but will grow into a different caudiciform plant
• It’s a very slow grower