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Fri, Oct 23, 09 at 15:55
| I have had this plant for probably 7 to 10 years. It has never bloomed and about a year ago I got a bug to try and find out what it was. I looked thru many websites and thought I had identified an Adenium. Now, however I think I may have been alittle premature as the pictures I have seen of Adenium do not have spines. Can anyone help me out? Thanks so much! |
Image link: I thought this was an Adenium I think I was wrong! (39 k)
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| No, not an Adenium, but a close relative in the family Apocynaceae: Pachpodium saundersii. |
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| Thank you so much joscience, now I can research and see what I have been doing wrong all these years!!! |
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| Luckily for you (and the plant) the care for both is similar, and P. saundersii is a very forgiving species. Anyway, the plant in your picture looks pretty good to me, so clearly you are doing something right! ;-) |
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| No, the plant has just managed to survive me. I have kept it in leaf all winter, I have allowed it to go dormant during winter, I have sun scalded it and it just keeps doing it's thing. Hopefully now I can get the right combination and maybe be rewarded finally with a flower or two. I was worried that I had stunted it's growth but now I find it is just a slow grower. It is nice to know these things. Again Joscience, thanks so very much! |
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