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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Hans J on May 08, 2015, 11:40:39 AM

Title: Geranium ID needed
Post by: Hans J on May 08, 2015, 11:40:39 AM

Hi all ,

who can help ?
I have in my garden since many years a Geranium without a name... I dont know from which source ( maybe bought or from a friend ? )
The plants grows in semishade - they are around 40 cm high
In my Book for Geranium I cannot find it ...
Could it be maybe a hybrid ?
I think the leaves a very unusual ...

Thanks in advance
Hans

Title: Re: Geranium ID needed
Post by: Maggi Young on May 08, 2015, 11:46:22 AM

What an interesting plant, Hans. Looks almost like a Malva?

Title: Re: Geranium ID needed
Post by: Hans J on May 08, 2015, 11:58:51 AM

Mhhh  ::)

Do you really think it is a Malva  ???

Here are two pics more from my "jungle"

Hans

Title: Re: Geranium ID needed
Post by: Hoy on May 08, 2015, 12:12:28 PM

The leaves look like some South African geraniums, like Geranium incanum, but the flowers are different. Maybe it is a hybrid.

Title: Re: Geranium ID needed
Post by: Maggi Young on May 08, 2015, 12:21:45 PM

I really don't know, Hans.  It has that "look" but it may well be a hybrid - I know almost nothing about Geraniums!

Title: Re: Geranium ID needed
Post by: Hans J on May 08, 2015, 12:42:37 PM

Thanks Maggi and Hoy ,

this is really a puzzle  :o :o
I have never bought a South African Geranium .
After my book is G.incanum not hardy here
My other Geranium are only common cultivars ...and they are all later with flowering ...
I have maybe 3 or 4 plants from this Geranium - so if it is a Hybrid it should be not so uniform
Maggi - like you I have more or less no knowledge about Geranium ...

 ???
Hans

Title: Re: Geranium ID needed
Post by: fleurbleue on May 08, 2015, 01:23:46 PM

It could be G. tuberosum

Title: Re: Geranium ID needed
Post by: Maggi Young on May 08, 2015, 01:27:49 PM

Nicole to the rescue

Good photo  here  http://www.ec-n.ru/images/Geranium_tuberosum/1.jpg (http://www.ec-n.ru/images/Geranium_tuberosum/1.jpg)

Title: Re: Geranium ID needed
Post by: Hans J on May 08, 2015, 01:35:47 PM

Thanks Nicole  :D

I had in meantime the same idea with G.tuberosum ( some pics in the Internet looks really similar )
I'm curious ...and so I dug out a plant ...it has no tubers  :-\ :-\
After my book is similar : macrostylum + malviflorum ( Maggi you had maybe the right idea with Malva )  ;D

Title: Re: Geranium ID needed
Post by: fermi de Sousa on May 08, 2015, 03:01:27 PM

Could possibly be Geranium transversale,
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: Geranium ID needed
Post by: Hans J on May 08, 2015, 05:33:07 PM

Thanks for your idea Fermi  :D