Pelargonium xdomesticum
Citation:
L. Bailey, Standard Cyclop. Hort. 2532 (1916).
Synonymy: -P. cucullatum sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 484 (1948).
Common name: Garden geranium.
Description:
Diffuse shrub to 1 m high, covered with long soft patent eglandular hairs and shorter eglandular and glandular ones; leaves alternate, broad-ovate to almost deltoid, to 8 cm long and c. 10 cm wide, shallowly lobed and dentate with acute teeth, often cucullate; petioles to 5 cm long.
Flowers in umbels of usually 3-6; peduncles to 8 cm long; pedicels 2-4 cm long, hairy as the stems; sepals narrow-elliptic to oblong, 2-3 cm long; sepal spur usually 1-2 cm long; petals various shades of pink with darker markings, 2 or 3 times as long as the sepals; c. 8 stamens fertile.
Usually very poor seed set.
Published illustration:
Macoboy (1969) What flower is that?, fig. 729.
Distribution:
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Also present as a garden escape in N.S.W. and Tas.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: Sept. — Jan.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
A very variable horticultural "species" with P. cucullatum and P. angulatum amongst the putative ancestors.
Author:
Not yet available
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