Fire in Australia

[mark smyth]

Gote, Geranium bohemicum, quite sticky and hairy, is available in all garden centres over here as seeds

[mark smyth]

I looked up languinosum is my books but it is mentioned only one time where the author says "very similar to G. bohemicum". Gote do you have a photo?

[gote]

I looked up languinosum is my books but it is mentioned only one time where the author says "very similar to G. bohemicum". Gote do you have a photo?

It is pretty rare due to its habit and it is red-listed. I have never seen it.
Try http://linnaeus.nrm.se/flora/di/gerania/geran/geralan.html
That is a good site for Swedish natives. The text is in Swedish but all pics are in English 
Göte

[Anthony Darby]

Gote,

I don't know.... I can't think of many Australians that would stand 100'C without dying.  It feels bad enough at 40'C to me, although I'm not that tough and Australian.  

Twenty minutes in a sauna at 100^oC is all I can stand. The French seem to go in for these weird experiments: scientist plus technician (both naked) plus technician's dog plus an uncooked beef steak stayed in an oven unharmed until the steak was well cooked. The humans sweated to keep cool and the dog, which can't sweat (Jack London please note ), panted. This may be apocryphal (I love that word), but heigh, it makes a good tale.

[Paul T]

It's only November and we already have bushfires in various parts of Australia.  South Australia and parts of Victoria have "Catastrophic" level fire warnings out, which was a new level brought in in the last year.  I bet they didn't really expect to use it until January or February.  At this rate I reckon half of Australia will be burning by summer itself. 

[fredg]

Twenty minutes in a sauna at 100^oC is all I can stand.

I hope you mean 100^oF.