A New Very Dark Seedling

[David]

This seedling flowered for the first time this morning - here is a photo by natural light in shade:

 

and in shade with flash:

 

and in brilliant sunshine:

 

and now the seedling:

 

This is the pod parent; Dr. Dimmitt tells us that 'Incandescent' is 'Black Ruby' x 'Crown':

 

and now the pollen parent.  This is the same parentage as Dr. Dimmitt's 'Black Raspberry', possibly out of the same pod:

 

This was the first good seedling of the cross to flower:

 

And now to amuse the retired Prof. here are the estimated percentage of the species in the background of this hybrid

 

'Amiability', 'Black Ruby' and 'Crown' are all cultivars of Adenium obesum. 

Therefore we have 75% A. obesum  of which a half (37.5% is the cultivar 'Black Ruby')

and we have 25% of A. crispum 'MAD 106' which you can clearly see in the prominent nectar guides.

 

The flowers are relatively small but of a most interesting colour.