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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 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".
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Geraniaceae is a family of flowering plants placed in the order Geraniales.The family name is derived from the genus Geranium.The family includes both the genus Geranium (the cranesbills, or true geraniums) and the garden plants called geraniums, which modern botany classifies as genus Pelargonium, along with other related genera.
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 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.
Pelargonium grandiflorum is a species of flowering plant in the family Geraniaceae, native to the southwestern Cape Provinces of South Africa. [1] It may be a parent of the cultivated Pelargonium × domesticum (regal pelargonium) with Pelargonium cucullatum .
The umbel-like inflorescences sit atop a stalk of about 6½ cm (2.6 in) long (full range 4–8½ cm) covered with long soft hairs to hairless. At the top of the inflorescence stalk are long, softly hairy, oval to lance-shaped bracts of about 3 mm (0.12 in) long and 2 mm (0.08 in) wide, which subtend two to ten scentless flowers, each on a long softly hairy flower stalk of 1¾–5 mm (0.07–0. ...