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A succulent that fakes a bonsai, blooms like a trumpet, and still tries to kill you.
means A genus of succulent, poisonous-sapped flowering plants (including the 'desert rose') native to Africa and Arabia, prized for their swollen trunks and showy blooms.
from The name comes from Aden, the port city in Yemen, where one of the species was first collected and documented by early botanists — so this toxic desert beauty carries the name of a harbor on the very coast where it grows wild.
- nickname
- Desert rose, despite hating deserts proper
- toxicity
- Sap used historically as arrow poison
- trunk flex
- Swollen caudex stores water, fakes age fast
- bloom timing
- Flowers hardest right when leaves drop