Pelargonium species

[mark smyth]

You may remember back in August I had lots of Pelargoniums seedlings. They have now come of age and are flowering nicely in the green house.

seedlings back in September
lost label
P. acetosum
P.aestivale
P. aridicola
-"-
P. australe
-"- a seedling in the crevice bed
P.elongatum
P. x ignescens

[mark smyth]

P. iocastrum
P. laxum - I'm sute this is wrong and should be P. carnosum
-"-
P. myrrhifolium
P. myrrhifolium var coriandrifolium
P. parvipetalum
P. pulverulentum - night scented
-"-
P. ranunculophyllum
P. triste

[mark smyth]

and lastly but there will be more in flower when I get back from England
P. zonale hybrid
P. myrrhifolium went missing from the post above

[Paul T]

Mark,

Some stunners in there.In particular iocastrum, triste, that first lost label one, plus that delightful lemon yellow one in the first posting.  So much variety in the pelargonium species shapes and colours that I had no idea about.

[Lesley Cox]

A lovely collection Mark. I really like the yellow one too. An unusual color in Geraniaceae?

[mark smyth]

I offered seeds last year and from memory only Fermi took some

What you dont see from the photos is how small some of the flowers are. What I'll do this weekend is measure the flowers and add the info to each name above.

Many of these are bulbous that you, Paul, should be able to grow outside

[ChrisB]

Mark,  do you have P. ionidiflorum?  I used to have this one and lost it.  If you do, I'd love to beg some seed from you.....

[mark smyth]

Chris these little ones never really caught my eye. I'm nearly sure Fir Trees have it listed

[ChrisB]

I'll have to take a trip down I guess.  Tks anyway Mark.

[mark smyth]

Paul I have seeds of iocastrum just ripened last weekend.

I have good seed set from my species Pelargoniums so watch this space for a list.

Others flowering now are ..
Once again the very floriferous P. acetosum
'Frank Headley' - so many flowers the leaves are hidden
'Frank Headley' x zonale - looks like my hybrid is this cross
a very dark P. peltatum
P. puncatum
P. tongaense
P. inquinans

[mark smyth]

I'll tag on here some Pelargoniums seen in the green house of Broughton House, Kircudbright

'Duchess of Devonshire'
'Hindoo'
'Madam Nonin'
'Madam Thibault'
'Marchess of Bute'
'Marchoiness of Bute'
'Noel'
P. tricolor
P. trifidum

[Paul T]

Mark,

Glorious pictures as always.  The perfection of that pic of P. tricolor.... the shape of the flowers on punctatum (how VERY cool)..... the colour of that peltatum..... the delicacy of the acetosum.... just wonderful!!  Very enjoyable. 

[mark smyth]

So, Paul, do you want to iocastrum seeds?

[mark smyth]

One more from my collection is P. scandens. It's related to P. zonale but has palmate leaves

[Paul T]

Nice flower on that one too.  Could you possibly photograph a leaf as well, to show what you mean by the difference?

Thise stuff should really all be in a Pelargonium thread rather than here in the ID section.  Too interesting to be hidden away here in the bowels of the SRGC.

edit by Maggi.... and so it has been moved to Flowering Now!!