![Geranium [<em>Geranium maderense</em>] Flowers](/2007/05/13/Geranium-Geranium-maderense-Flowers-by-Bill-Heller.jpg "Geranium [<em>Geranium maderense</em>] Flowers")
Geranium [Geranium maderense] Flowers
This looks like a field of purple flowers. But they are
actually all on the same plant. This is the top of a
"Geranium maderense" it is a wild plant that has big
leaves on long stems with a large spherical inflorescence
of these beautiful purple flowers (as you can see at the right).The plant is a biennial, the first year you only see the interesting leaves. The flowers (and resulting seeds) come the second year. After that the plant usually dies. Fortunately, it re-seeds easily and can even have pups come up from the roots.
Unfortunately this guy was not for sale, he was just the display plant. But I did bring home his little brother. :-D This, and a VERY cool Ginkgo bonsai tree are the reasons I waited to get yesterday's cactus at the succulent show!
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