Geranium
Botanical name: Geraniaceae
Geranium
Botanical name: Geraniaceae
Species of Geranium
Geraniums
Plants of the genus Geranium should not be confused with their close cousins of the genus Pelargonium; the latter are often referred to as "geraniums" by gardeners. Plants of the genus Geranium are more commonly called geraniums, and they share several features with their Pelargonium cousins, including showy, colorful flowers. For this reason, some geraniums species are also used as ornamentals.
Bushman candle
Bushman candle consists of herbs or undershrubs often with simple stem from woody rootstock or deep tap rot; leaves are toothed or divided; flowers are regular, petals 5, separate, tip broad, blunt or slightly notched; fruit is beaked. The genus is distributed in Africa, Western Asia and East India, approximately 40 species, approximately 21 in South Africa.
Filarees
Filarees are a group of mostly small, flowering plants that sport five-petalled flowers that are found in shades of purple, pink, or white. These species are popular additions to gardens and parks as an attractive groundcover. The flower and the immature fruits are said to form the shape of a bird's head and beak, giving this genus the nickname 'Stork's bill.'
Pelargoniums
In the wild, Pelargonium inquinans is a small shrub, about 2 m tall, branched, with young succulent twigs becoming woody with age, bearing red glandular hairs. The evergreen leaves, borne by long petioles, are orbicular (like Pelargonium × hortorum but without dark markings), incised in 5 to 7 crenate lobes, with a viscous pubescence, giving a cottony appearance to both sides.
Scientific Classification
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