Item: Adenium 'Beautiful Mule'
(Rooted Cutting, You will receive a plant similar in size to the one pictured)
 
Warning:  exceptionally susceptible to root rot
 
Parentage: Complex hybrid involving Adenium "obesum", swazicum, and crispum. ('Candy Stripes' x 'Black Raspberry')
'Candy Stripes' = A. crispum 'Famous Ancestor' x A. swazicum 'Perpetual Pink'
'Black Raspberry' = A. crispum 'Famous Ancestor' x A. "obesum" 'Black Ruby'
 
Creator: Dimmitt 2003
 
Plant form: Naturally arborescent with thick trunk, major branches, and massive roots. Foliage resembles that of "obesum", except for more prominent white veins as in crispum. Deciduous. It can also branch basally and become a shrub.
 
Flower: Round at first; with age the petals elongate and quill, becoming more star-shaped. Diameter at one week 84 mm, 35 mm petal width. Petals solid crimson-red outer halves, fading to pink at throat. Throat red with darker red strong nectar guides that extend onto the petals halfway to the tips. There are white calluses where each pair of petals fuse at the throat. (They turn red in older flowers.) Flowers continuously from mid spring through late autumn. 
 
Notes: Shipped Bareroot