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    Geranium oxonianum  YEO  forma thurstonianum  (TURRILL) MIKE L.GRANT    
 

Fam.: Geraniaceae / Crane's-Bill Fam.  

Genus:  Geranium  L.
 

Authors:
   YEO:  Peter Frederick Yeo (1929 - 2010), English botanist
   TURRILL:  William Bertram Turrill (1890 - 1961), British botanist
   MIKE L.GRANT:  Michael Livingstone Grant (1962 - ), British botanist
   L.:  Carl von Linné (Linnaeus, 1707 - 1777), Swedish naturalist who introduced the binary naming system for plants and animals
 

Etymology:
   Geranium:   geranion = crane (Greek, from the form of the fruit)
   oxonianum:   from Oxford (where the hybrid has been bred)
   thurstonianum:   Edgar Thurston (1855 - 1935), English botanist
 

Geranium x oxonianum is the hybrid between Geranium endressii and Geranium versicolor, which has been bred by a gardener from Oxford. From that later plants with narrow petals have been selected which are called ... forma thurstonianum. There are several different cultivars of forma thurstonianum, the shown one is growing very good, I found it run wild near Waterville (County Kerry, Ireland).

 

Geranium oxonianum forma thurstonianum / Thurston’s Oxford Crane's-Bill, IRL County Kerry, Waterville 16.6.2012
Fig. 1:  Geranium oxonianum forma thurstonianum / Thurston’s Oxford Crane's-Bill
IRL County Kerry, Waterville 16.6.2012
Geranium oxonianum forma thurstonianum / Thurston’s Oxford Crane's-Bill, IRL County Kerry, Waterville 16.6.2012
Fig. 2:  Geranium oxonianum forma thurstonianum / Thurston’s Oxford Crane's-Bill
IRL County Kerry, Waterville 16.6.2012
Geranium oxonianum forma thurstonianum / Thurston’s Oxford Crane's-Bill, IRL County Kerry, Waterville 16.6.2012
Fig. 3:  Geranium oxonianum forma thurstonianum / Thurston’s Oxford Crane's-Bill
IRL County Kerry, Waterville 16.6.2012
Geranium oxonianum forma thurstonianum / Thurston’s Oxford Crane's-Bill, IRL County Kerry, Waterville 16.6.2012
Fig. 4:  Geranium oxonianum forma thurstonianum / Thurston’s Oxford Crane's-Bill
IRL County Kerry, Waterville 16.6.2012

 


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