Help identify a rhizomes
Marcel Berteler (Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:36:35 PST)

Thanks for the various responses. It seems like the closest match would
be the Pelargonium Triste although it does not seem to be as tall as
mine is.

who ever has rights to update the wiki, feel free to use the photos on
the wiki. Once the plant has more leaves I will post a more overall photo.

Thanks,

Marcel Berteler

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bonsaigai37@aol.com (2012/01/06 15:27):

How about a geophytic Pelargonium? I'm not really to species without more research...

-----Original Message-----
From: Marcel Berteler<marcel@berteler.co.za>
To: pbs<pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thu, Jan 5, 2012 11:24 pm
Subject: [pbs] Help identify a rhizomes

Hello

I live in Cape Town, South Africa and I have a rhizomes growing in a pot
that I transplanted from our previous garden. Can someone assist me in
identifying this plant?

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/…
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/…

Root: rhizomes
Leaves: fern like, rather woody when dried.
Flower: long stem, about 1 meter with a simple cluster of little
flowers. each flower has 5 green sepals which curl up on opening and 5
yellow petals with a wide dark brown stripe.