At any one time, there are several plant experiments going on hereabouts--various grafts, rooting, germinating seeds, stress tests and such.
This adenium was not supposed to be involved in any of these--it is my personal favorite and was always the most frail in my vast collection of five plants. But for some reason, it stayed outside well into the winter--before temperatures started to go down to freezing but definitely way below what most people would recommend. It was brought it and seemed none the worse for wear even after spending a week or so when night temperatures dipped to around 5C. But about a couple of weeks later, it started turning into this:
