Over the years I've had people ask me about these,how do i tell if I'm buying a true Adenium socotranum .look at the leaves on it.Belive me I've paid the price for the phony ones.Now I have two true ones.



FYI. I would add one more thing here I will have some Pitcher plants forsale in about a month I'm rooting some now.

Isn't it also the very upright slender growth that classifies it as a socotranum?

I forgot to add the side shot of mine,yes they are slender,the point I wanted to make on them is the leaves,which are more rounded on the ends also darker leaf color.I have more of them coming in before long .

This is another of ones not mine which show them at six years of age in which they have started their long growth turning into long slender growth pattern.

Excellent! Thanks for the pictures.

Nice plant.
That one is on my want list too.
Mike

Ha, I saw a photo of one that was nine years old, about three feet tall, and had its' first bloom. Like a broomstick with one little pink flower at the top.

Socotranums are THE most amazing Adeniums, but they must have to be 50+ years old to be anything like those on the island of Socotra where they come from.

I have an abomination, a grafted bit of real Soco that Warunee had, I guess she got some branches from a real 'tree' and grafted them onto a rootstock of.... maybe arabicum.

Yes, the leaves are sort of blunt and very thick and leathery, totally different.

I MUST get a new camera. Life is less without photos...