{"id":12100,"date":"2008-04-28T01:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T05:44:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-13T19:02:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T23:02:22","slug":"rare-pelargoniums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2008\/04\/rare-pelargoniums\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Rare-ish Pelargoniums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/p_bowkeri.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5194094211425740322\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Pelargonium bowkeri<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Of the 230+ species of Pelargoinum, 185 are concentrated in the winter rainfal area of the south esters tip of South Africa. Pelargonium, or, what many of us know and love or loath, as &#8220;geraniums&#8217; are mostly native to South Africa, with ony a handful of species found elsewhere in the world, ( 8 in Australia, 2 on Madagascar, 2 in the near East, for instance).  This odd but lovely tiny species is a native of Transkei (East South Africa) and was names by H. Bowker and documented in Curtis&#8217; Botanical Magazine in 1864, where it can be found illustrated in color.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/p_bowkeripot.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5194094220015674930\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This &#8216;Pachycaul&#8217; type of Pelargonium ( stores water in a thickened stem), is relatively easy to grow, but perhaps impossible to find sold. I started this from seed, collected in South Africa by the Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, who has sent me some seeds upon request. But here is what is different about this wild species form of Pelargonium &#8211; P. bowkeri is not a winter rainfall species, but a summer rainfall species. And, it hails not from the south western part of the cape, where most of the Pelargonium clan call home, but it instead is native to the summer rainfall areas of the northeastern Cape. <\/p>\n<p>The root system is complex, composed of tuber-like swollen roots,which some growers may wish to raise out of the soil, to show off ( something that caudex growers really get into). I may try this when this four-year old seedling goes dormant again, to propagate it later this summer, but for now, we are enjoying it&#8217;s rather pretty, fringed petals ( only two other species of Pelargonium have fringed petals), this was a bit of a surprise for me, since I simply purchased the seed in a lot, and never researched what it actually looked like! Surprises, can be nice! Pelargonium bowkeri makes a great addition to any collection of caudex plants ( caudiciforms) or those who collect species Pelargoniums. ( I&#8217;m sure there are plenty of both of you, right?). Ugh&#8230;I&#8217;m so wierd!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/p_mollicomum.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5194094224310642242\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Pelargonium mollicomum<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, P. mollicomum is the wild, species form of a plant which many of you know and love as the scented geranium.  However, this wild form, has hardly any scent, for some reason. The scented forms known as pineapple-scented, are also sometimes listed as P. mollicomum, but the grey-green lacy foliage of this species looks nothing like a typical &#8216;sceneted geranium&#8217;, That said, you may notice that many scented geraniums have similar blossoms. I happed to like these less-thab-showy forms, and this species is a fine example of how subtle yet interesting this genus can be.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardern.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/p_mollicomum2.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5194094228605609554\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pelargonium bowkeri Of the 230+ species of Pelargoinum, 185 are concentrated in the winter rainfal area of the south esters tip of South Africa&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - 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