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The specific epithet hortorum is a genitive plural form of the Latin "hortus" ("garden") and therefore corresponds to "horticultural".The name was created by the American botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey who in 1914, writes "The large number of forms of the common geranium, derives from the variation and probably the crossing of P. zonale and P. inquinans (and possibly others) during more than a ...
Pelargonium × hortorum (Zonal) These are known as zonal geraniums because many have zones or patterns in the center of the leaves, [36] this is the contribution of the Pelargonium zonale parent. Common names include storksbill, fish or horseshoe geraniums. [50] They are also referred to as Pelargonium × hortorum Bailey.
Pelargonium zonale is a species of Pelargonium native to southern Africa in the western regions of the Cape Provinces, in the geranium family. It is one of the parents of the widely cultivated plant Pelargonium × hortorum , often called "geranium", "horseshoe geranium", "zonal geranium" or "zonal pelargonium".
The Plant List has 250 accepted species names (including two primary hybrids) and 9 subspecies or varieties for the genus Pelargonium as of 2012. [ 1 ] Contents
Pelargonium inquinans, the scarlet geranium, [2] is a species of plant in the genus Pelargonium (family Geraniaceae). It is a shrub endemic to South Africa, ranging from Mpumalanga to KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape provinces. [1] It is one of the ancestors of the hybrid line of horticultural pelargoniums, referred to as the zonal group.
A 2013 Cochrane review found limited to no evidence of benefit with Pelargonium sidoides root extract for the symptoms of acute bronchitis, the common cold and acute rhinosinusitis. [4] A summary of this review found that all studies were "from the same investigator (the manufacturer) and performed in the same region (Ukraine and Russia)." [4]
Pelargonium luridum, locally called variable stork's bill, is a medium high, tuberous herbaceous perennial geophyte, belonging to the Stork's bill family, with white to pink, slightly mirror symmetrical flowers in umbels on long unbranched stalks directly from the ground rosette that consists of few initially ovate, later pinnately incised or linear leaves, with blunt teeth around the margin.
The Conservatoire national du Pélargonium is a municipal botanical garden specializing in pelargoniums, which is located within the municipal greenhouses (serres municipales) on the Chemin Tortiot, Bourges, Cher, Centre-Val de Loire, France.