For Franz; here is Kays post.

On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 16:08:09 +0000, Kay
wrote:

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.



Pam in Bristol