The
Wax Rose, is a large evergreen shrub, that
grows up to five metres tall and blooms all year round, bearing showy orange
flowers. In Thai, it is known as
Kulaab
Pukaam,
which means
‘Burmese Rose’.
However, despite its
name the Wax Rose is not a rose, but a deciduous, leaved cactus, that grows
to a woody, prickly shrub, with a stem that is not succulent and hardly
resembles the typical desert cacti.