Adenium multiflorum

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|image_caption = Adenium multiflorum in cultivation at the University of California Botanical Garden.

|genus = Adenium

|species = multiflorum

|authority = Klotzsch.

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Adenium multiflorum is small, succulent tree native to central and eastern Southern Africa. It may be deciduous or evergreen, and is found in dry woods or grassland in its native habitat.{{Cite web|title=Adenium multiflorum – Impala Lily – Buy seeds at rarepalmseeds.com|url=https://www.rarepalmseeds.com/adenium-multiflorum|access-date=2021-03-31|website=www.rarepalmseeds.com}} It is typically 0.5–3 m tall. Like other succulent members of the family Apocynaceae, 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.{{Cite book | last = Neuwinger | first = Dieter | title = African Ethnobotany: Poisons and Drugs: Chemistry, Pharmacology, Toxicology | publisher = Chapman & Hall | date = July 1996 | pages = 941 | isbn = 978-3-8261-0077-2}}

The leaves are simple, with smooth edges, typically oppositely arranged.{{Cite web|last=Becking|first=David|title=Adenium multiflorum {{!}} Tree SA|url=https://treesa.org/adenium-multiflorum-2/|access-date=2021-03-31|language=en-ZA}} The flowers, which appear in winter, are typically 5-petaled and may be red, pink, white, or bi-color.{{Cite web|title=Adenium multiflorum {{!}} PlantZAfrica|url=http://pza.sanbi.org/adenium-multiflorum|access-date=2021-03-29|website=pza.sanbi.org}} The two-capsuled fruits contain long, grooved, hairy brown seeds.

Sometimes called the impala lily, A. multiflorum requires full sun and excellent drainage. It is extremely drought tolerant, but susceptible to the tobacco whitefly.{{Cite web|title=Impala Lily (Adenium multiflorum) - Plants {{!}} Candide Gardening|url=https://candidegardening.com/GB/plants/eaabf98455d9bdfef9c454fdb2dd1322|access-date=2021-03-31|website=Candide|language=en-GB}} Though frequently used as a bonsai plant indoors, it may be grown outside in USDA hardiness zones 10 and 11.{{Cite web|title=Buy Adenium Multiflorum Seeds - Rarexoticseeds|url=https://www.rarexoticseeds.com/en/adenium-multiflorum-seeds-impala-lily-seeds.html|access-date=2021-03-31|website=www.rarexoticseeds.com}}

It is sometimes treated as a variety or subspecies of Adenium obesum.{{cite web | url = http://www.plantzafrica.com/plantab/adeniummultiflor.htm | title = Adenium multiflorum Klotzsch | author = Stoffel Petrus Bester | date = June 2004 | work = South African National Biodiversity Institute's plant information website }}