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Definition of Adenium obesum
1. Noun. South African shrub having a swollen succulent stem and bearing showy pink and white flowers after the leaves fall; popular as an ornamental in tropics.
Group relationships: Adenium, Genus Adenium
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adenium Obesum
Literary usage of Adenium obesum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1861)
"... Adenium obesum, with its almost globular fleshy trunk, naked branchlets bearing
a tuft of leaves and an umbel of beautiful flowers ; Moringa ..."
2. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1864)
"Believed to be hardy. Flowers bright yellow, blooming during July in a cool
frame.—(Ibid., t. 5417.) Adenium obesum, (Thick-stemmed Ade- nium. ..."
3. Vegetable Teratology: An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual by Maxwell Tylden Masters (1869)
"... Adenium obesum, some species of Vitis, &c. So, too, the upper portion of the
flower-stalk occasionally becomes much dilated, ..."
4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1861)
"... a mass of cinder has allowed the accumulation of sufficient earth to afford
sustenance to a few straggling bushes of Capparis galeata or Adenium obesum. ..."
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