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Pelargonium capitatum is one of several species (including Pelargonium graveolens) known as rose geranium or rose-scented pelargonium in English. The popular names refer to the scent of the essential oils extracted from glandular tissue, not the flowers, which have hardly any scent to speak of. Some of the species are known as kusmalva (meaning, roughly, "coastal geranium") in Afrikaans. It is in the subgenus Pelargonium along with Pelargonium graveolens, Pelargonium tomentosum and Pelargonium crispum.
CHARACTERISTICS
Botanical profile.
- Genus
- Pelargonium
- Family
- Geraniaceae
ALSO KNOWN AS
Other names.
en Rose-scented pelagonium en Rose scented geranium en Rose geranium en Rose-scent geranium en Rose-scent pelargonium en Scented-leaf geranium
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