Coloured-leaf (incl. Fancy or Variegated Leaf)

These have been in cultivation for 250 or so years, derived as leaf sports of P. inquinans. The flowers are often smaller than those of other groups and are usually single, but the leaves are the major ornamental feature.They are used as bedding or pot plants. For ease of identification, this group is sometimes split into subgroups - silver, silver tricolour, gold, gold tricolour, bronze, black and butterfly (with an irregular butterfly-shaped zone of a different colour in the centre).

Pelargonium 'A Happy Thought'

An old cultivar dating to at least 1873 as a sport found on a zonal 'Magenta' in Warwick, UK.

This is a Coloured-leaf Pelargonium (including Fancy- or Variegated- leaf).

Pelargonium 'Black Jubilee'

Leaves velvety-green with a chocolate zone. Flowers single, pinkish salmon.

This is a Coloured-leaf Pelargonium (including Fancy- or Variegated- leaf).

Raised by Bode, USA, 1958, and introduced 1960-1.

Pelargonium 'Skies Of Italy'

Foliage gold and brown, splashed with red. Flowers pinkish red.

This is a Coloured-leaf Pelargonium (including Fancy- or Variegated- leaf).

kingdom Plantae
phylum   Tracheophyta
class    Magnoliopsida
superorder     Rosanae
order      Geraniales
family       Geraniaceae
genus        Pelargonium L'Hér.