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| Copyright: PauloShadow Shadow (PauloShadow) (52) |
| Genre: Plants |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2007-09-30 |
| Categories: Flowers |
| Exposure: f/3.4, 1/60 seconds |
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| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2007-11-09 16:12 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note [Portuguese] |
Gerânio
* Scientific name: Pelargonium hortorum
* Sinonímia: Pelargonium zonale x Pelargonium inquinans * Popular Name: Gerânio, gerânio-horseshoe * Family: Geraniaceae
* Division: Angiospermae
* Origin: Africa of the South
* Cycle of Life: Perennial The gerânio is a plant of spectacular effect, its inflorescências seems mini bouquets, much perfumed. The flowers can be of diverse colors and mixtures, simple or folded. Its leves, in heart format, have the indented edges and many times a spot darker central office and can be variegadas. Had to its characteristics one is useful for bulks and bordaduras in the garden, but it has its beauty detached in vases and gardenings. They must be cultivated the full sun, in land ground composed of garden and vegetal, well drenável composition, with regular irrigations. Tolerant to the cold. It is multiplied for estaquia. Gerânio understands a group of grass and small shrubs of the sorts Geranium and Pelargonium, of the family of the geraniáceas, who congregates about 300 species, many natives of tempering and tropical regions of altitude, of which several are cultivated as ornamental or for extration of tanning bark and dyes. |
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