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    Adenium oleifolium flowers

    Adenium oleifolium flowers
    Author: Ivan Lätti
    Photographer: Judd Kirkel Welwitch

    The inflorescence of Adenium oleifolium is an about sessile, few-flowered, stem-tip cyme that appears annually with the leaves. There are linear bracts below the flowers that have short pedicels.

    The corolla tubes widen slightly near the flower mouths, pale yellowish or whitish on the outside near the base. The five spreading corolla lobes of each flower are pointed, slightly wavy and may differ in shades of pink to red or purple, the corolla striped inside the throat.

    The fruits are paired pale grey to grey-brown follicles, spindle-shaped (cylindrical and tapering at both ends) and faintly hairy. The numerous seeds are oblong, brown and hairy with tufts of long, off-white hairs at both ends (Van Rooyen and Van Rooyen, 2019; Frandsen, 2017; iNaturalist; http://www.llifle.com; https://worldofsucculents.com).

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