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Pelargonium grossularioides

Species of flowering plant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pelargonium grossularioides
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Pelargonium grossularioides is a species of geranium known by the common names gooseberry geranium and coconut geranium. It grows primarily in the subtropical biome and is native to Cape Provinces, Free State (province), KwaZulu-Natal, Mozambique, and Tristan da Cunha.[1] It is known in coastal California, Kenya, and parts of India as an introduced species.[1][2] It is sometimes grown as a garden geranium.

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Its common names come from the resemblance of the leaves to those of gooseberry and from the coconut scent of the leaves.[3]

An annual or occasionally perennial, it has sparse, short hairs and a prostrate or sprawling habit. The leaves are round to broadly ovate, lobed, with the edges coarsely toothed. The inflorescence is an umbel of 3 to 50 flowers in pink to rose-purple. Each flower has five narrow petals no more than 6 millimeters long.[4][5]

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