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Rose Geranium '', species found in fynbos along the coast of South Africa, from Lamberts Bay in the Western Cape east to Kwazulu-Natal
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Rose geranium is the common name of two species of ''Pelargonium'': *''Pelargonium graveolens'', species native to the Cape Provinces and the Northern Provinces of South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique *''Pelargonium capitatum ''Pelargonium capitatum'' is one of several species (including ''Pelargonium graveolens'') known as rose geranium or rose-scented pelargonium in English. The popular names refer to the scent of the essential oils extracted from glandular tissue, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pelargonium
''Pelargonium'' () is a genus of flowering plants that includes about 280 species of perennial plant, perennials, succulent plant, succulents, and shrubs, common name, commonly called geraniums, pelargoniums, or storksbills. ''Geranium'' is also the botanical name and common name of a separate genus of related plants, also known as cranesbills. Both genera belong to the family Geraniaceae, and Carl Linnaeus originally included all the species in one genus, ''Geranium''; they were later separated into two genera by Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle in 1789. While ''Geranium'' species are mostly temperate climate, temperate herbaceous plants, dying down in winter, ''Pelargonium'' species are evergreen perennials native plant, indigenous to warm temperate and tropical regions of the world, with many species in southern Africa. They are drought and heat tolerant but can tolerate only minor frosts. Some species are extremely popular garden plants, grown as houseplants and bedding ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pelargonium Graveolens
''Pelargonium graveolens'' is a ''Pelargonium'' species native to the Cape Provinces and the Northern Provinces of South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Common names include rose geranium,"Pelargonium graveolens" ''Plants For A Future.'' Accessed June 23, 2007. sweet scented geranium,USDA NCRS "PLANTS Profile for Pelargonium graveolens (sweet scented geranium)" ''United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NCRS), PLANTS Database''. Accessed June 23, 2007. old-fashioned rose geranium, and rose-scent geranium. < ...
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Cape Provinces
The Cape Provinces of South Africa is a biogeographical area used in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD). It is part of the WGSRPD region 27 Southern Africa. The area has the code "CPP". It includes the South African provinces of the Eastern Cape, the Northern Cape and the Western Cape, together making up most of the former Cape Province. The area includes the Cape Floristic Region, the smallest of the six recognised floral kingdoms of the world, an area of extraordinarily high diversity and endemism Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ..., home to more than 9,000 vascular plant species, of which 69 percent are endemic. See also * * Northern Provinces References Bibliography * Biogeography {{ecoregion-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
