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    Geranium drakensbergensis

    Geranium drakensbergensis
    Author: Ivan Lätti
    Photographer: Thabo Maphisa

    The Geranium drakensbergensis flower has five pink-purple to blue-purple petals with red-purple vein lines. The notch-tipped petals are white with dark veins at the base, the flower centre green in picture. The ring of chunky, blue-grey anthers surrounds a deep red-purple style-tip, not yet split into its five branches while the anthers are still functional.

    This Geranium occurs in a small part of the Drakensberg around Witsieshoek to Underberg.

    Only the blurred, narrow-lobed leaf part in the bottom right of the picture belongs to the Drakensberg cranesbill, the other leaves not (iNaturalist; http://pza.sanbi.org).

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