I'll risk a long post--- NO ACORNS or THUMBS!!! OK. please thank you.
The breeding in Adeniums has become so muddied by (mostly) breeders in Thailand, that it's just not possible to know what you really have.
In general, plants that have bigger wider leaves transpire, sweat, more, and use more water. Plants with narrow leaves, well, don't 'sweat' as much, and can more easily rot with over watering.
And, plants with the Arabian, arabicum, genes do go dormant for a few months in winter. They have been used in breeding a lot to try to get plants with more branches, and bigger caudexes. In SE Asia, arabicums are more popular, as people want form, rather than varieties of flowers. Arabicums have small pink flowers, for the most part. I have several obesums that were grafted onto arabicums, and that's like grafting a dog's head onto a horse's body, just not a good match! Neither top nor bottom do well, and the graft even looks stupid, with a spindly stem arising from a fatter caudex. The bottom forces the top to go dormant, and the top, that I bought the plant for, doesn't bloom well.
The flowers are even losing their names. One breeder made a "Double Santa", red with white edges, and another breeder, unrelated plants, made the same bloom, and named it "Miracle".
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