By Chris Winslow
One of my favorite house or container plants is the desert rose. This little succulent is part of the dogbane family of flowering plants which includes oleander, mandevilla, vinca and plumeria.
The desert rose (Adenium obesum) is a native of Mauritania, Senegal, Sudan, south through the Arab nations to South Africa, and it simply thrives in our central Texas sunshine and heat. However, like its friends plumeria and vinca, you have to protect them from our cold winters.
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