{"id":31904,"date":"2025-04-10T05:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T23:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31904"},"modified":"2025-04-16T16:43:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T11:13:47","slug":"adenium-obesum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/adenium-obesum\/","title":{"rendered":"Adenium obesum"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Adenium obesum Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Tiruvallur district in Tamil Nadu is making inroads in cultivating Adenium obesum, more popularly known as &#8216;desert rose&#8217;, a unique flowering plant that has drawn major attention for its novelty as an ornamental houseplant.<\/p>\n<h2>About Adenium obesum<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Adenium obesum, commonly known as the <strong>Desert Rose<\/strong>, is a<strong> succulent shrub <\/strong>in the dogbane family (Apocynaceae).<\/li>\n<li>It grows primarily in the <strong>desert or dry shrubland biome.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>native to<\/strong> the arid regions of <strong>Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is often used as a <strong>houseplant <\/strong>for its <strong>beautiful flowers<\/strong> and charming, <strong>small tree-like shape.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Desert rose is also <strong>used in bonsai <\/strong>(an art of growing and training of a plant to a miniature form).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features:\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It has striking, <strong>trumpet-shaped flowers<\/strong> and a <strong>unique swollen trunk.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Its vibrant <strong>blooms <\/strong>can range from <strong>white to deep red.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>flowers are highly fragrant <\/strong>and attract a variety of pollinators, including bees and butterflies.<\/li>\n<li>Special features of the Adenium include its <strong>drought tolerance <\/strong>and the <strong>ability to store water <\/strong>in its thick trunk, allowing it to s<strong>urvive long periods without rainfall<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>slow-growing plant,<\/strong> only growing about 12 inches per year.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Adenium obesum FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What is the common name of Adenium obesum?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Desert Rose<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Which regions is Adenium obesum native to?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Africa and the Arabian Peninsula<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What kind of biome does the Desert Rose naturally grow in?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Desert or dry shrubland<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etvbharat.com\/en\/!offbeat\/this-desert-rose-plant-fetches-upto-rs-12-lakh-complete-guide-to-growing-adenium-obsesum-enn25040601435\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ETVB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Adenium obesum, commonly known as the Desert Rose,  is a succulent shrub in the dogbane family (Apocynaceae).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}