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pelargonium

Any of a group of shrubby, tender flowering plants belonging to the geranium family, grown extensively for their colourful white, pink, scarlet, and black-purple flowers. They are the familiar summer bedding and pot ‘geraniums’. Ancestors of the garden hybrids came from southern Africa. (Genus Pelargonium, family Geraniaceae.)



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