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Geranium is a genus of 422 species of flowering annual, biennial, and perennial plants that are commonly known as the cranesbills. They are found throughout the temperate regions of the world and the mountains of the tropics, but mostly in the eastern part of the Mediterranean region. The long, palmately cleft leaves are broadly circular in form. The flowers have five petals and are coloured white, pink, purple or blue, often with distinctive veining. Geraniums will grow in any soil as long as it is not waterlogged. Propagation is by semiripe cuttings in summer, by seed, or by division in autumn or spring.
The genus name is derived from the Greek γέρανος, géranos, or γερανός, geranós, crane. The English name "cranesbill" derives from the appearance of the fruit capsule of some of the species. Species in the Geranium genus have a distinctive mechanism for seed dispersal. This consists of a beak-like column which springs open when ripe and casts the seeds some distance. The fruit capsule consists of five cells, each containing one seed, joined to a column produced from the centre of the old flower. The common name cranesbill comes from the shape of the unsprung column, which in some species is long and looks like the bill of a crane. Many species in this genus do not have a long beak-like column.
Geraniums are eaten by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including brown-tail and mouse moth.
The term "hardy geranium" is often applied to geraniums to distinguish them from the pelargoniums. However, not all geranium species are winter-hardy.
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Photo taken at Knighthayes Court.
Geranium - 2 star Michelin restaurant in Copenhagen. The chef Rasmus Kofoed is the record keeper of Bocuse d'Or, the most well-known world culinary contest - the winner of Bronze, Silver, and Gold awards.
The dinner at Geranium in last Dec. was one of the most impressive meal I had in last year. I took a lot of photos during the meal. Please enjoy this incredible food show.
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OK, I held off as long as I could, having a good attitude toward the frozen tundra here for the past 3 months but now I am beginning to miss a few things....
There is a famous portrait "Rubens Peale with a Geranium
1801" in the National Gallery. Rubens was a botanist, he is posed with what is reputed to be the first geranium in America. www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object-page.662...