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Re: Australian's erodiums


Dear Jean-pierre

The only reference that I could find in my books to any of the erodiums
that you asked was in the Flora of Melbourne produced by the Society for
Growing Australian Plants - Maroondah Group Inc (ISBN 1 875657 07 X):

Erodium crinitum:

Common name:   Blue Heron's Bill, Native Crowfoot
Size:     0.1-0.8m x 0.3-1m
Habitat:  Coastal banksia woodland, tea-tree heath, plains grassland
Form:     Fast growing, open, spreading annual or biennial herb
Foliage:  Deeply divided dark green leaves, from 15-40mm long
Flowers:  Clusters of 2 to 6 blue flowers with yellow or white veins near
the base; July to October
Requirements:  Tolerates extended dry periods in sandy soil
Comments: It is a useful container plant, with interesting fruit. The roots
are edible. Locally rare.
Propagation:   Seeds or cuttings
Localities:    (the Flora has a map with a numbering system - but from the
map it seems to appear right around Melbourne
          from Williamstown/Altona (on the coast), inland to Sunbury,
          across to Ringwood and back down to the coast at Sandringham and
          Mordialloc - in other words it circles Melbourne on the outskirts
          of the most built up and established/oldest  areas. The Flora
          only covers the greater metropolitan area so I am sure it appears
          elsewhere across the State also).
Distribution:  All States

As to where you might source seed? You could try the Society for Growing
Australian Plants web site at:

http://www.ozmail.com.au/~scap/index.html

the site has a list of seed suppliers and you might also be able to contact
somebody in SCAP for info on the other species you asked about.

Hope this helps

By the way is there an international society re Geraniums/Erodiums and/or
can you recommend any good sources of seed?

Susan George
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