Renu-Karoo Nursery
A nursery run by renowned ecologists Richard Dean and Sue Milton focusing on species indigenous to South Africa and in particular the area near Prince Albert that includes the Klein Karoo.
Nodes
Pelargonium odoratissimum
Pelargonium
Pelargonium dichondrifolium
Pelargonium scabrum
Pelargonium
Pelargonium zonale
Pelargonium exstipulatum
Pelargonium fragile
Pelargonium trifidum
Taxonomy term
Pelargonium
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Gk. pelargos = a stork; referring to the beak of the fruit which resembles a stork’s bill (cf Geranium, Erodium).
Pelargonium abrotanifolium
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Resembling the southern wood Artemisia abrotanum and folium = 'leaves'; i.e. with leaves like the southern wood
Pelargonium englerianum
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After Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler (1844-1930), botanist from Berlin. He instigated and contributed to multiple prodigious botanical flora of both the world and Brazil. He visited SA three times and Namibia once. He developed the most famous 'Engler' system of botanical arrangement by which many herbaria were arranged.
Pelargonium myrrhifolium
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From the Greek ‘myrrhi’ / ‘myrrhis’ meaning ‘myrrh’; and the Latin ‘folium’ / ‘folium’ meaning ‘leaf’.
Pelargonium odoratissimum
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From the Latin odoratus = ‘sweet-smelling / fragrant’ and -issima denoting 'very'; the flower is very fragrant
Pelargonium scabrum
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From the Latin scabo meaning 'to scratch' meaning 'rough'
Pelargonium trifidum
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From the Latin trifidus = 'three-pronged'
