Garden of Falling Star

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David Clulow

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Dec 14, 2009, 11:39:38 AM12/14/09

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I have never been a fan of star-shaped Adeniums. Mr. Ko included a bonus cutting of 'Garden of Falling Star' with one of my orders. When it flowered; I was rather under whelmed but now the plant is mature, it certainly makes an impressive specimen.

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This photo is with flash, here is one by natural light

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Mr Ko had produced some interesting progeny from it so I used it rather sparingly as a parent. One of the crosses was with 'Desert Star'. I recently showed 'Beauty of Taiwan' which is also a 'Desert Star' hybrid - note how floriferous it is. This is 'Desert Star' which I presume is a white A. obesum as the pod parent and A. boehmianum as the pollen parent:

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This is what happened when I crossed 'Garden of Falling Star' (pod parent) with the pollen of 'Desert Star'. With such parents the cross should be extremely floriferous. I have made a small number of grafts from it but they have as yet proved disappointing being rather floppy, hopefully they will harden up as they get older.

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Jan O Donnell

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Dec 14, 2009, 6:04:44 PM12/14/09

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I love the star shaped ones David – they have something whimsical about them to me which I find very attractive.

Jan

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