Impala Lily (Adenium multiflorum)
Oliphants River
Mpumalanga, South Africa. 2009.

Canon EOS 400D
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
f/4.5, 1/400s, ISO 200
RAW. As is.

This photo was taken on the banks of Oliphant’s River, in a rest camp in our progress from Johannesburg to Livingstone (via Kruger National Park). They were so beautiful and delicate that I couldn’t resist pulling out my macro lens (which didn’t get a huge amount of use on safari!). Meanwhile the hippos and crocodiles were cruising the river behind me – the hippos make for very interesting wake up calls in the middle of the night!

_{Thank you to Blair & Wildflowers of the World for identifying this flower for me!}

Adenium multiflorum is small, succulent tree native to central and eastern Southern Africa. Like other members of the succulent Apocynaceae family, A. multiflorum has a milky latex with toxic alkaloids. This latex is used as an arrow poison and as a fish stunning poison. (care of Wikipedia)

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