In article , Pam Moore
writes
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 21:46:01 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
wrote:

Also, are you aware that bonsai plants are supposed to be outdoor
plants, in spite of being potted?

franz, some tropical plants are sold as indoor bonsai and I guess this
is one of those. You often see sad specimens in garden centres.
I gave up on indoor bonsai years ago as they are difficult to keep in
a warm house where the atmosphere is dry. Outdoor ones are hardier so
I stick with those.
This one I guess is an indoor one. I put Citrosa and bonsai into
google and it came up with a few sites, mainly in Swedish or similar.
2 references said "Citrosa geranium". I've not the time now to look
them up or get the pages translated but Douglas may like to.

Googling on citrosa came up with:

"The Citrosa plant is a genetically engineered houseplant created by
incorporating tissue cultures of the grass that produces citronella oil
into hybrid varieties of geranium to produce a cultivar that emits a
citronella aroma."

.... a stoary repeated on several sites. Others list it as a variety of
geranium/pelargonium.

If it is a scented leaved palargonium, then lower leaves dying off is
just part of what they do! - especially the leggy rosette type (P
graveolens or the chocolate peppermint one) as opposed to the shrubby
type (like the usual lemon scented one or the 'oak leaf' one) - they
produced arched bare stems with a few dead leaves adhering, and then a
rosette of healthy leaves at the tip. It's quite hard keeping them
compact as they don't seem to branch as readily as the shrubby types.


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Kay
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