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Unknown Geranium species
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Posted by paion (My Page) on Wed, Jul 6, 05 at 13:08
| Can anyone help me identify these two Geraniums?
#1:
#2:
Closeup, from left G. delavayi, #1, #2:
Thanks :-) |
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RE: Unknown Geranium species
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| These look like Erodiums to me, same family,slightly different flowers. |
RE: Unknown Geranium species
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| The leaves are wrong for Erodium, I'm positive they are Geraniums :-) I think it is something closely related to sinense and delavayi, if that helps? |
RE: Unknown Geranium species
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| Well, it certainly does look like sinensis only much paler, cool plant either way! |
Here is a link that might be useful: G.sinensis
RE: Unknown Geranium species
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| No. 1 - the dark one - looks like G. refractum; the foliage and the flower resemple refractum. |
RE: Unknown Geranium species
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| I shall try the N° 2 : it looks like Geranium pogonanthum. |
RE: Unknown Geranium species
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| pogonanthum or yunannense provided they are more pink than blue assuming your camera doesnt do pinks very well |
RE: Unknown Geranium species
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| Thank you all for your kind replies! :-) Marlene: I bought the plant as G. refractum, but the source I got it from is known for their misidentifications, and the pictures I have found on the web doesn't match. Is this species very variable? Picture 1
Picture 2 (this plant looks a bit like #2) alethea/Pellie Grower: #2 does look like G. pogonanthum, but I have never seen pictures of yunnanense. Are they hard to tell apart? The colors are a bit wrong, #2 is pink, #1 is a bit more reddish purple. The petals on #1 are much more reflexed today:
 Thanks for helping me identify them:-) |
RE: Unknown Geranium species
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| I have never grown G. pogonanthum nor G.yunnanense up to their blooming time, unfortunately - probably I am nursing again some very young G. yunnanense from seed now - but Dr Peter Yeo in his "Hardy Geraniums" edn.2 says that G. yunnanense differs from G. pogonanthum in having "fewer, larger, bowl-shaped flowers with broad non-recurved petals, and more divergent stamens" |
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