Pelargonium grossularioides: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Geraniales
- Family
- Geraniaceae
- Genus
- Pelargonium
- Species
- Pelargonium grossularioides
- Scientific Name
- Pelargonium grossularioides
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Pelargonium grossularioides
Pelargonium grossularioides is a species of geranium known by the common names gooseberry geranium and coconut geranium. It grows primarily in the subtropical biome and is native to Cape Provinces, Free State (province), KwaZulu-Natal, Mozambique, and Tristan da Cunha. It is known in coastal California, Kenya, and parts of India as an introduced species. It is sometimes grown as a garden geranium.
Its common names come from the resemblance of the leaves to those of gooseberry and from the coconut scent of the leaves.
An annual or occasionally perennial, it has sparse, short hairs and a prostrate or sprawling habit. The leaves are round to broadly ovate, lobed, with the edges coarsely toothed. The inflorescence is an umbel of 3 to 50 flowers in pink to rose-purple. Each flower has five narrow petals no more than 6 millimeters long.
...Pelargonium grossularioides in languages:
- Afrikaans
- rooirabasam
- Afrikaans
- rooistingelhoutbas
- English
- Coconut Geranium
- English
- Coconut Pelargonium
- English
- Gooseberry Geranium
- English
- Gooseberry Pelargonium
- English
- gooseberry-leaved pelargonium
- English
- coconut-scented pelargonium
- English
- Coconut Storksbill
- Swedish
- kokospelargon
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Pelargonium apetalum
- Pelargonium australe
- Pelargonium brevirostre
- Pelargonium capituliforme
- Pelargonium columbinum
- Pelargonium dispar
- Pelargonium gilgianum
- Pelargonium glechomoides
- Pelargonium grossularioides
- Pelargonium hypoleucum
- Pelargonium inodorum
- Pelargonium leucophyllum
- Pelargonium littorale
- Pelargonium malacoides
- Pelargonium minimum
- Pelargonium mossambicense
- Pelargonium nanum
- Pelargonium nelsonii
- Pelargonium sessiliflorum































































































































































