Red Cranesbill, herb , Geranium/Germanium robertianum

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Hi Kay,

I see one site that looks really promising. It even mentions the leaves turn red. Still, it doesn't look like the plant I saw pictured but the leaves are different from the genus maculatum.

I'm wondering if possibly the site I saw with the scarlet leaves had this mixed up with another genus? I will keep trying to find that site and have another look.

Here is one site that has an interesting bit of information:

http://www.google.com/custom?q=Red+cranesbill & client=pub-7695880573524319 & forid=1 & ie=ISO-8859-1 & oe=ISO-8

Very interesting pictures of UV and IR:

http://www.naturfotograf.com/UV_GERA_ROB.html

And another:

http://www.magdalin.com/herbs/plants_pages/h/herb1.htm

And another:

http://www.nwcb.wa.gov/weed_info/gallery/herbrobert.html

And another:

http://www.fs.fed.us/ne/delaware/ilpin/G.htm

This herb has radium in it and it is critical to the health of the cancer patient according to Rudolf Breuss.

In the meantime I will keep looking for that red picture and post when I find it.

Thank you,

Baugh

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I've been looking for this plant. I've pretty well ripped the internet search

engines

apart... and that is what I do very well.

From what I've read, this plant has more aliases than a hitman! Apparently they

number well over a hundred according to some places. Therefore, I'd only go by

the botanical name on this one. Is Geranium robertianum what is in the book?

What part is used, flowers, leaves, root or the entire plant?

Assuming (I hate that word) it is Geranium robertianum, here's what I found thus

far:

From this page: http://www.nwcb.wa.gov/weed_info/herbrobert.html

" Geranium robertianum is both a winter and spring annual. The light green

leaves are deeply dissected. In late fall the foliage turns red. "

Here's a picture of it with red foliage, but at more of a distance than I'd want

to see.

http://www.paghat.com/cranesbill_robert.html

They state: " Herb (Geranium robertianum), sometimes called Fox

Geranium, is a wild geranium with very finely cut fern-like leaves which are

stiffer

than most crane's-bills & have the exciting feature of leaves that are bright

red to

bronze especially if grown from seeds in the sun. Grown in shadier or moister

locations, new leaves will be green until autumn, & the color will persist on

old

leaves through winter. The stems will be red whether grown in sun or in shade. "

Apparently it grows wild in many areas of the United States. There is a map at

this

site: http://plants.usda.gov/cgi_bin/plant_profile.cgi?symbol=GERO

It seems that it's considered a weed in many areas. Have you tried any

nurseries in your area? It probably won't be organically grown from them, but

they may know of a source for you.

I'll keep looking as I have time.

Skip

On 10 Aug 2004 at 20:51, oldglory@... wrote:

> The leaves I saw of the right plant had sort of arrow head shaped leaves

colored bright red so

> the genus maculatum wouldn't fit anyway due to the shape of the leaves. I

suspect the Red

> cranesbill name fits the plant due to the color and I'm sure they start out

red and stay red. I

> shall find that plant again if it is the last thing I do!