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Double zonal pelargonium, commonly know a jewel, has small pure scarlet flowers. These flowers resemble the blossom of a double hawthorn. The trusses are small and neat.

Truss and Single Flower of Double Zonal Pelargonium

Double zonal pelargonium, commonly know a jewel, has small pure scarlet flowers. These flowers resemble…

Pictured are the stigmas, calyx, and nectary on flower A of the pelargonium blossom. Flower B pictures the calyx with ovary in cross section, nectary, and ovary. Flower C pictures the blossom with corolla removed. D and E are cross section of the ovary. F is the stamen.

Pelargonium Blossom and Nectary

Pictured are the stigmas, calyx, and nectary on flower A of the pelargonium blossom. Flower B pictures…

The common name of pelargonium is stork's bill. The endlicherianum variety has large, deep rose colored flowers. The two larger petals are marked with five deep purple nerves. The plant grows two feet tall.

Pelargonium Endlicherianum

The common name of pelargonium is stork's bill. The endlicherianum variety has large, deep rose colored…

Pelargonium inquinans flowers vary from intense scarlet, to rose colored, to white. The flowers bloom in July. The shrub grows two feet tall.

Flowering Branch of Pelargonium Inquinans

Pelargonium inquinans flowers vary from intense scarlet, to rose colored, to white. The flowers bloom…

The common name of pelargonium peltatum is ivy-leaved pelargonium. The flowers vary from white to red and vary in size between large and small. The plant grows two feet tall.

Pelargonium Peltatum

The common name of pelargonium peltatum is ivy-leaved pelargonium. The flowers vary from white to red…

The two upper petals of pelargonium tricolor flowers are very dark red and the three lower petals are white. Each stem is one to three flowered. The stem is shrubby, short, and branching.

Inflorescence and Leaf of Pelargonium Tricolor

The two upper petals of pelargonium tricolor flowers are very dark red and the three lower petals are…

The common name of pelargonium zonale is horseshoe geranium. Sometimes the seedlings only develop proliferous flowers.

Abnormal Proliferous Inflorescence of Pelargonium Zonale

The common name of pelargonium zonale is horseshoe geranium. Sometimes the seedlings only develop proliferous…

The common name of pelargonium zonale is horseshoe geranium. The flowers vary from all shades of red to white. The plant grows two feet tall.

Flowering Branch of Pelargonium Zonale

The common name of pelargonium zonale is horseshoe geranium. The flowers vary from all shades of red…

"Some plants, like pelargoniums, can only be kept handsomely formed and well furnished by cutting them down severely every season, after the blooming is over. The plants should be prepared for this by keeping them rather dry at the root, and after cutting they must stand with little or no water till the stems heal over, and produce yound shoots, or "break," as it is technically termed." — Encyclopedia Britannica, 1893

Pelargoniums

"Some plants, like pelargoniums, can only be kept handsomely formed and well furnished by cutting them…