Adenium multiflorum
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| Adenium multiflorum in cultivation at the University of California Botanical Garden. | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Family: | Apocynaceae |
| Genus: | Adenium |
| Species: | A. multiflorum |
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Adenium multiflorum Klotzsch. |
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Adenium multiflorum is small, succulent tree native to central and eastern Southern Africa. Like other members of the succulent Apocynaceae family, A. multiflorum has a milky latex with toxic alkaloids, specifically Cardiac glycosides . This latex is used as an arrow poison and as a fish stunning poison.
It is sometimes treated as a variety or subspecies of Adenium obesum.
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