pelargonium zonale

Pelargonium zonale, known as wildemalva in Afrikaans, is a species of Pelargonium native to southern Africa west of the Cape Province, in the geranium family. It is one of the parents of the widely cultivated plant Pelargonium × hortorum, often called 'geranium', 'zonal geranium' or 'zonal pelargonium'.

The genus name Pelargonium, in scientific Latin, derives from the Greek pelargós (πελαργός), designating the stork, the shape of the fruit evoking the beak of the bird. The specific epithet zonale ...