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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Pelargonium grossularioides - Coconut Scented Geranium
P. grossularioides is a fun plant with a delightful coconut scent. Its ripply round leaves all grow out of the center. Also from the center come long tendrils with little plantlets and teeny-tiny little purple-red flowers. It blooms throughout the spring, summer and fall and produces seeds with little fuzzy "parachutes". I was surprised - happily - to find Coconut geranium seedlings in some of my other potted plants.
Coconut geranium mothership 3/01/06.
Notice the runners starting to reach out.
Coconut geranium mothership
Two vigorous Coconut geranium seedlings
pop up in a neighboring pot.
A Coconut seedling (right) moves in
with the Nutmeg geranium.
[Ed. note - This article was originally published in 2/2005 and moved as part of a web site re-organization.]
