Geranium identification

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  1. OrangeHeart

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    Does anyone know what this Geranium may be please? Thank you

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    Looks like one of the cantabrigienses, but there are lots of varieties.
     
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    The flowers and growth habit don't look right for wargrave pink I don't think

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    I think it could be Geranium Sanguineum "Vision Pink".
     
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      That's ok, but I thought they looked like this, and the leaves too ... this is Wargrave Pink :-

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      @Michael Hewett that isn't Wargrave Pink, it looks more like a geranium sanguineum. This is Wargrave Pink.

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        This is geranium sanguinium Vision Pink

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          It looks just like my Geranium sanguineum striatum (also known as G. s. Lancastriensis).

          It could be a hybrid variety, but definitely a sanguineum type from the leaves. G. "Wargrave Pink" has different leaves and is altogether a bigger plant. Leaves and flowers are both wrong for G. cantabrigiense.
           
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            That was labelled Wargrave Pink, but it may have been wrong. Never mind ...
             
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            @Michael Hewett, unless they put the wrong label for you, but the photo you posted is not Geranium Wargrave pink, it's Geranium sanguineum var. striatum. And I suspect the original poster's geranium is Geranium sanguineum var. striatum too.
             
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              Thank you, I will make a note of it, because it must have been wrongly labelled. It happens - only yesterday I saw some cacti in a garden centre that were wrongly labelled. Maybe I should have told the person in charge but by the time I got to the checkout I'd forgotten about it.
               
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                I bought 3 erigeron "sea breeze" from B&Q, one of them promptly flowered and turned out to be a veronica gentianoides. Which was a plant they had in the same 3 for £10 offer, but mine were definitely all labelled erigeron and I didn't notice the difference in the young plants.
                 
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                  @Escarpment,@Michael Hewett, it happens a lot. I just found out earlier last month that the small plug plants I bought online last year was in fact Salad Burnet, Sanguisorba minor and not Sanguisorba officinalis which was not easy for me to notice in leaf form as I had never grown them before. It was only when I kept seeing half dead looking bobbles that just did not look quite like what I thought Sanguisorba officinalis looked like and a bit of research I realised they had sold me the wrong plant...
                   
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