Talk:Adenium

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In searching Adenium I find arabicum and multiflorum listed as species, along with swazicum and oleifolum, which are listed here as subspecies. I don't know: is there an authoritative taxonomic authority? if so, a link would be appreciated. 140.184.192.117 16:50, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

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I'm watching a BBC program called "tribe" where the presenter stays with remote tribes and lives their life. In this case, a tribe in tanzinia is observed using poison from "a tree called the desert rose" to poison their arrows for hunting. He said that there is no known cure for this poison, so I came here looking. Is this the same plant? And what of the poison?

All parts of this plant are poisonous, with the toxic action due to cardioactive steroids resembling digitalis. See, for example, 2d Ed. Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants by Nelson, Shih, and Balick. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.5.158.2 (talk) 18:42, 30 December 2007 (UTC)