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Oakleaf Garden Geranium (Pelargonium panduriforme)

Description

Pelargonium panduriforme-is an erect, well branched shrub. The plant grows up to a height of 1.75 m and 0.5 m in diameter. The stems are soft and herbaceous when young but as the shrub matures become woody. The leaves are soft, hairy, and somewhat sticky and strongly balm-scented. The leaf blades are somewhat fiddle-shaped to heart-shaped in outline.The inflorescence is borne on flowering branches with two to twenty pale pink flowers. The shrub flowers from August to January. The fruit is dry and breaks up into five ellipsoid parts, each with a corkscrew awn at the top (the dry styles) and containing one seed.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum: Magnoliophyta

        • Class: Magnoliopsida

          • Order: Geraniales

            • Family: Geraniaceae

              • Genus: Pelargonium