It's a caudiciform succulent- Adenium obesum. Here is a link that might be useful: Cactus and succulent forum

Argh!!!! Enabling is sooooo true. I bought gertrude jeckyll, abraham darby, happy child, crown princ margaretta, ebb tide, golden celebration,ambridge and portlandia from heirloom roses and was surfing about trying to find more information on roses that can handle a shadier area.... when I found your post.... I live close to wrightwood in california. On the sunny side of the same mountain. Nice weather here. 1 hour from euro desert roses so I looked and looked and looked.. logged back on and re looked... why did I see that post... I ended up ordering lady overtoun, souv of wooton, surpassing beauty of woolverstone, gipsey boy, louise odier maybe I ordered that from heirloom... marie dermar, daniel and asta von parpart.... argh.. Hope I love them as much as I hope I will.... Fragrance and charm is a goal of my garden.

Same here in the SF bay area...half the time they never bloom if grown outdoors in pots-even when placed where it can get blazing hot on a summers day..I think it IS the cool nights of 60f and lower all through our spring-fall that really doesnt allow them to grow much or flower. I have two of the hardiest-a hybrid and A. arabicum,and they arent encouraging me to add any more.

Okay, so I pulled two of the four tonight, found nice strong green babies with at least three regular leaves (not including seedling leaves) to graft to and then got the shakes working with something so small! LOL! I cut and then taped carefully making sure that the cut edges were tight together. Now we wait. They are so small. But I figure if they will die anyway, why not try it now and see what happens? The only loss I will really have is the fine strapping young 'uns I chose to slice into to try to save the white ones. I really picked out the two best out of seven hundred or so. I was spending time (obviously) looking over all of my babies with a critical eye tonight and was amazed at how much I love looking at them! Even with seven hundred to look at. I have to remind myself not to go crazy trying to pamper them and poke at them and water and water. Sometimes I worry the poor things, I am sure. I am one of those plant people who have so little patience! :-) So ... as for grafting these little guys ... anyone want to take a stab at how long, in their tender green baby condition, it might take before I should check on the grafting process and see if it is working? Months? A week or two? I have never ever grafted anything, so I don't have a CLUE. I will of course research it, but I was just wondering if anyone had a suggestion or two? I also wonder if the white seedlings will (if they share nutrients) turn green by picking up some chloraphyll? I kind of hope they don't. I would love for them to STAY white! :-) Peace ~ Ang