Pelargonium sericifolium J.J.A van der Walt

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This very rewarding stunner has all you will ever need. For starters it requires low maintenance and its silky leaves provide interest throughout the year. Its water needs are almost negligible. Then from mid-winter to mid-spring, its cerise flowers make this an unrivalled pot plant and groundcover for arid areas.

A small, much-branched, evergreen, shrub of 0.2 × 0.3 m. Simple, silvery green, wedge-shaped leaves, are shallowly lobed at the end and up to 10 mm long. The leaves are covered with dense silvery hairs or, in botanical terms, a sericeus indumentum. This covering gives the plant a silvery appearance.

Cerise flowers of about 15 mm in diameter, in groups of 1–3, can be found from the end of winter (late July) to mid-spring (October). The pedicel of 1–3 mm long, and hypanthium of 35–60 mm long, are both sericeus. Silvery green, ovate to narrowly ovate sepals, are 7–9 mm long and 2–3 mm wide. Intense dark purple, linear markings, which merge near the base, can be found on the bottom 3 petals. Seven fertile stamens, all in variable sizes, are present. The pollen is yellow-lemon.

Distribution and habitat

The naaldekoker is restricted to the Spektakelberg outside Springbok and Kosies Mountain, near Sannagas, in the Namaqualand-region of the Northern Cape. In these broken and mountainous areas of Succulent Karoo, it grows on granite, gneiss and deep red sand.

Annual rainfall in this area is between 100–200 mm. The perennial presence of early morning mist is believed to supplement precipitation. The summers can be extremely hot, with occasional frost in winter.

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