adds to Socotra’s mystical aura. Another botanical curiosity, the desert rose (Adenium obesum socotranum), with its swollen trunk and vibrant flowers, seems to have come straight from the ...

Its fuchsia flowers inspired the common name desert rose, though it’s no more a rose than I am a porpoise. “This is a famous example of a strategy that Socotra plants have evolved to withstand ...

Socotra Archipelago, in the northwest Indian Ocean near the Gulf of Aden, is 250 km long and comprises four islands and two rocky islets which appear as a prolongation of the Horn of Africa. The site ...

Of the 24 known Boswellia species, 11 are only found on Socotra Island, off the coast of Yemen. Socotra’s Boswellia trees are currently not the main source of commercially traded frankincense ...