The Encyclopedia of Herbs: A Comprehensive Reference to Herbs of Flavor and Fragrance by Arthur O. Tucker & Arthur O. Tucker

Author:Arthur O. Tucker & Arthur O. Tucker [Tucker, Arthur O.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780881929942
Publisher: Workman Publishing

P. elongatum (Cav.) Salisb., Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton 312. 1796.

Native country: The upright coconut geranium is native to South Africa.

General habit: Stems are to 20 cm, slender, erect or ascending.

Leaves: Leaves are glabrous above, zoned with purple to 5 cm across, deeply five- to seven-lobed, lobes sharply toothed, petiole hairy with narrow stipules.

Flowers: The flat flower cluster holds one to five flowers on a 15-cm peduncle, cream- colored, upper petals veined red, narrow.

P. glutinosum (Jacq.) L’Hér. in Aiton, Hort. kew. ed. 1. 2:426. 1789 [P. viscosum (Cav.) Harv. & Sond. ex B. D. Jacks., P. viscosum glutinosum Hort.].

Native country: This occurs from South Africa’s Piketberg in the southwestern Cape to the Kei River in the Eastern Cape. The distribution range is largely correlated with mountain ranges. It grows on well-drained soil in relatively moist habitats, often in close proximity to running water. It was introduced from South Africa to England about 1777.

General habit: The pheasant’s foot geranium is an erect, much-branched shrub to 1.8 m or more. Stems are herbaceous when young but soon grow woody, smooth to hairy but always with numerous glandular hairs, green but becoming brownish with age.

Leaves: Leaves are smooth above, 1.5 to 12 cm long, 5 to 80 mm wide, on short stalks; blade heart-shaped in outline, three-lobed nearly to the base (palmate), lobes broad, basal lobes often irregularly incised, sharply pointed with irregularly toothed margins, often dark-colored about the main veins; appendages at the base of the leaf stalks narrowly triangular to triangular, about 7 mm long and 5 mm wide.

Flowers: The flat flower clusters hold one to eight nearly stalkless flowers, the calyx spur to 1 cm long, about as long as the sepals, petals orchid-pink to rose, the upper broader, crimson-blotched and streaked. The herb flowers sporadically throughout the year, peaking during the spring.

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