Pelargonium trifidum flowers

    Pelargonium trifidum flowers
    Author: Ivan Lätti
    Photographer: Thabo Maphisa

    The flowers of Pelargonium trifidum are creamy white with slender petals. The upper petal pair is marked with dark maroon to red-purple blotches at the base from which tiny lines protrude a little up the petal surfaces. The lower three petals are unmarked. The petal shape is oblong, the upper ones wider and sometimes widening in the centre into an elliptic form. Petal tips are square or rounded. The flower dimensions are 3 cm in diameter, the hypanthium or floral tube about 6 cm long.

    Flowering happens in spring and summer (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2010).

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