Well, I am very happy that I did something right! As in, give advice that everyone has agreed on.
Adeniums, Desert Roses, have been popular for, what, twenty or thirty years now. They are being bred and crossed until you don't really know the parentage. The obseum is most common, because it has lent itself to great manipulation of color and flower form. Someone in Vietnam had a red double appear in 2007, now named "Doxon". All multiple flowers are descendants of this one plant. It's range naturally is all the way across the middle of Africa, south of the Sahara Desert, and north of the Congo rainforest/jungle. It grows really well in Thailand and southern India and other places, and doesn't generally go dormant.
The next most common Adenium species is the arabicum, from Arabia. This one doesn't bloom as much, and there isn't a really good red yet, much less all the other colors. The caudex gets huge, with multiple stems, and it does go dormant. So, a plant that decides to go dormant probably has arab blood, so to speak. Hum, I don't have my book, so I am unsure about the other kinds of Adeniums as to dormancy. There are more than ten kinds, species, of Adeniums.
So, there's the lesson for today, quiz tomorrow!
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