"Pam Moore" wrote in message
...
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.

Thanks Pam. My mind still boggles at how a pelargonium is trained to
look like a bonsai

Franz