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{{Short description|Species of plant}}
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{{Speciesbox
|name = Sabi star
|image = Adenium multiflorum.jpg
|image_caption = ''Adenium multiflorum'' in cultivation at the [[University of California Botanical Garden]].
|genus = Adenium
|species = multiflorum
|authority = [[Johann Friedrich Klotzsch|Klotzsch.]]
}}

'''''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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> It is typically 0.5–3 m tall.<ref name=":0" /> Like other [[succulent]] members of the family [[Apocynaceae]], ''A. multiflorum'' has a milky latex with [[toxic]] [[alkaloid]]s, specifically [[Cardiac glycosides]]. This latex is used as an [[arrow poison]] and as a [[Fish toxins|fish stunning poison]].<ref name="Neuwinger">{{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}}</ref>

The [[Leaf|leaves]] are simple, with smooth edges, typically oppositely arranged.<ref name=":1">{{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}}</ref> The [[flower]]s, which appear in winter, are typically 5-petaled and may be red, pink, white, or bi-color.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Adenium multiflorum {{!}} PlantZAfrica|url=http://pza.sanbi.org/adenium-multiflorum|access-date=2021-03-29|website=pza.sanbi.org}}</ref> The two-capsuled [[fruit]]s contain long, grooved, hairy brown [[seed]]s.<ref name=":1" />

Sometimes called the impala lily, ''A. multiflorum'' requires full sun and excellent drainage. It is extremely [[Drought-tolerant plant|drought tolerant]], but susceptible to the [[Silverleaf whitefly|tobacco whitefly]].<ref>{{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}}</ref> Though frequently used as a [[bonsai]] plant indoors, it may be grown outside in [[Hardiness zone|USDA hardiness zones]] 10 and 11.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

It is sometimes treated as a [[variety (botany)|variety]] or subspecies of ''[[Adenium obesum]]''.<ref name=":0">{{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 }}</ref>

==References==
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*{{cite web |title=''Adenium multiflorum''|work=PlantZAfrica.com |url=http://www.plantzafrica.com/plantab/adeniummultiflor.htm|access-date=2010-02-11| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100125040112/http://www.plantzafrica.com/plantab/adeniummultiflor.htm| archive-date= 25 January 2010 | url-status= live}}

==External links==
* [http://database.prota.org/PROTAhtml/Adenium%20multiflorum_En.htm ''Adenium multiflorum'']. Protabase

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[[Category:Adenium|multiflorum]]
[[Category:Caudiciform plants]]
[[Category:Flora of KwaZulu-Natal]]
[[Category:Flora of Malawi]]
[[Category:Flora of Mozambique]]
[[Category:Flora of the Northern Provinces]]
[[Category:Flora of Swaziland]]
[[Category:Flora of Zambia]]
[[Category:Flora of Zimbabwe]]
[[Category:Plants described in 1861]]

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