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pel1

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Pelargonium Hybrid ?
« on: December 19, 2009, 05:55:09 PM »
Hi all,
I brought this Pelargonium a few years ago as a young seedling labelled "Pelargonium Pinnatum", it clearly isn't that! No-one I have shown it to can put a name to it, my own best guest is that it is a hybrid, possibly involving something from the section polyactium. Would anyone out there care to hazard a guess as to it's parentage? It has a perennial woody stem and tuber, but the leaves are deciduous in the summer, unfortunately it has never flowered.
thanks, James.
North Kent, UK

mark smyth

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Re: Pelargonium Hybrid ?
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2009, 08:10:33 PM »
Can you take a closer shot of the leaves?
Do you have the three book series Pelargoniums of South Africa? Or Pelargoniums by Diana Millar?
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pel1

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Re: Pelargonium Hybrid ?
« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2009, 08:47:22 PM »
Hi Mark,
I will try and get a close up of the leaves in the next few days, I have Diana Miller's excellent book, the leaves are a bit like reniforme, but it's that thin but very woody stem that puzzles me, I have grown mostly the succulent pelargoniums until quite recently, is anyone out there into the shrubbier species?
Thanks, James.
North Kent, UK

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Re: Pelargonium Hybrid ?
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2009, 11:00:05 PM »
James it looks quite drawn. Do you grow it in full sun?
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pel1

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Re: Pelargonium Hybrid ?
« Reply #4 on: December 21, 2009, 02:18:59 PM »
Hello again Mark,
Here is a close up of the leaves. The plant is grown in full sun with all my other succulent pelargoniums, although the stem is tall and thin it is also quite sturdy, that just seems to be how it wants to grow.
-James.
ps, I will be away for a few days over Christmas, so wont be able to answer again for a while-have a good one!
North Kent, UK

 


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