Type of Flowers
Geranium: Geranium is a genus of 422 species of flowering annual, biennial, in addition to perennial plants that are usually known equally the cranesbills. They are works life throughout the temperate regions of the footing in addition to the mountains of the tropics, but mostly inwards the eastern operate of the Mediterranean region. The long, palmately crack leaves are broadly round off inwards form. The flowers convey 5 petals in addition to are coloured white, pink, royal or blue, oft amongst distinctive veining. Geraniums volition grow inwards whatever seat down equally long equally it is non waterlogged. Propagation is past times semiripe cuttings inwards summer, past times seed, or past times segmentation inwards tumble or spring.
The genus English cite "cranesbill" derives from the appearance of the fruit capsule of about of the species. Species inwards the Geranium genus convey a distinctive machinery for seed dispersal. This consists of a beak-like column which springs opened upwards when ripe in addition to casts the seeds about distance. The fruit capsule consists of 5 cells, each containing 1 seed, joined to a column produced from the centre of the old flower. The mutual cite cranesbill comes from the shape of the unsprung column, which inwards about species is long in addition to looks similar the invoice of a crane. Many species inwards this genus attain non convey a long beak-like column.
Confusingly, "geranium" is likewise the mutual cite of members of the genus Pelargonium (sometimes known equally 'storksbill'), which are likewise inwards the Geraniaceae family. These are by in addition to large half-hardy plants which are either grown from seed every year, or offered equally bedding inwards leap in addition to discarded after flowering. Linnaeus originally included all the species inwards 1 genus, Geranium, but they were after separated into ii genera past times Charles L’Héritier inwards 1789. Other erstwhile members of the genus are similar a shot classified inwards genus Erodium, including the plants known equally filarees inwards North America.
The term "hardy geranium" is oft applied to geraniums to distinguish them from the pelargoniums. However, non all geranium species are winter-hardy.
The shape of the flowers offers 1 agency of distinguishing betwixt the ii genera Geranium in addition to Pelargonium. Geranium flowers convey 5 real similar petals, in addition to are so radially symmetrical (actinomorphic), whereas pelargonium flowers convey ii upper petals which are dissimilar from the iii lower petals, in addition to so the flowers convey a unmarried airplane of symmetry (zygomorphic).
