Re: Plant identification?
- Subject: Re: Plant identification?
- From: N* S* <T*@plantsoup.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 07:49:56 -0800
Chantal, just wait! You'll have plenty of seeds for the MGS list in a couple of years. Those geraniums are prolific!
Nan
On Feb 1, 2011, at 6:27 AM, Chantal Guiraud wrote:
> Hello Sean,
>
> Thank you very much for this advice of not removing the old leaves, because I was wondering if I had to do so or not.
> My plant is outside but very protected from the rain in winter and from the north winds. Hope to have a flowering season this year. It has been planted in june 09 but it was a small seedling offered by a friend. Hope to get seeds for the MGS seed list.
>
> Chantal Guiraud
> Mediterranean Garden Society Seed Coordinator
>
>
> Le 31 janv. 11 à 21:43, Sean A. O'Hara a écrit :
>
>> Hi Richard -
>>
>> You've gotten the correct ID on your first Geranium species.
>>
>> The second does look like an immature plant of G. maderense, but I
>> suspect that it may be a one of two closely related species - G.
>> canariense or G. palmatum. I find it has to tell these two species
>> apart - both produce leaves like your specimen that can become 6-10
>> inches in diameter and occasional to regular sprays of small flowers
>> hovering atop the foliage mass.
>>
>> The true G. madarense has leaves that eventually become much larger.
>> It remains a large leafy clump for a year or two, then dramatically
>> puts forth a tremendous tower of thousands of flowers (which is
>> ultimately the end of the plant). This dramatic species has become
>> very popular of late and Annies Annuals has even occasionally offered
>> a white form of this species.
>>
>> Each of these Altantic Island species in interesting in having a very
>> minimal root system, hardly capable ot keep the plant erect - this
>> task is delegated to the spent leaf stalks will recurve down to form a
>> cone of 'stilts' that help support the plant! So don't be overly
>> fussy about removing all the dead foliage (otherwise your plant may
>> fall over).
>>
>> Seán O.
>> http://about.me/seanaohara
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Richard Starkeson
>> <rstarkesonmed@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Can anyone identyfy these two Geranium-like plants?
>>>
>>> #1 - Grows almost like a groundcover, slowling srpeading by rhizomes - about
>>> 15 cm high; flowers whitw/pink, about 2 cm across
>>> Photo at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/59009901@N08/5402556043/
>>>
>>>
>>> #1 - get very large leaves - larger as plant gets larger -u pto a foot
>>> across -Can't remember what flower looks like; reseeds prolifically
>>> Photo at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/59009901@N08/5403154950/
>>>
>>> Richard Starkeson
>>> San Francisco, California
>>
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