Adenium oleifolium
A dwarf Adenium of the Kalahari with a large underground caudex and narrow olive-like leaves, growing in sandy grassland and dry scrub. It is a hot summer-rainfall plant with a bone-dry, cool winter, and it rots quickly if kept wet and cold.
Where it grows wild
Semi-succulent subshrub of desert and arid shrubland; the tuberous caudex sits mostly below ground in deep Kalahari sand, with short stems among grasses.
The two climate sites sit at about 1,000–1,450 m on the Kalahari plateau.
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