desert rose

[jiorji]

i just bought a rather young one...lots of leaves. Most pictures i've seen online are of little trees that only have 1 or 2 leaves around each flower.
Are young plants supposed to have this many leaves or am i supposed to pluck them off?? lol

also...how do i get it to grow more branches to make more flowers?


thanks

[Newt]

Hi Jiorji,

No, don't pull off the leaves. The plant will mature as it grows and needs the leaves to manufacture food. What you have seen is mature specimins.
http://www.baobabs.com/Adeniums_generalities.htm
http://www.bonsai-bci.com/species/adenium.html
http://andromeda.cavehill.uwi.edu/Ca...se.jpg%207.jpg

Newt