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Adenium obesum

Desert Rose

IUCN: least concern

5

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1954

First collected

2012

Last collected

2025

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

Where Bishop collected it

2 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.

Two centuries of collecting

1950s2010s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1954 by Lyon, H.L. (Oʻahu).

From the collection

Adenium obesum, 641439Adenium obesum, 752122Adenium obesum, 574984Adenium obesum, 582445Adenium obesum, 502140

Alive today

3 research-grade iNaturalist sightings in the wild in Hawaiʻi since 2000. Most recent first.