Pelargonium graveolens (Arbaroriza)
This is my participation for the #monomad challenge.
I didn't know many information about this flower so i did a search online to give you more details about it and i had to ask my grandmother too.
First of all the original name of it is Pelargonium graveolens, which is weird because my grandmother calls it arbaroriza and that's how i learned to call it too. I found on the internet that South Africa is the country of origin and we have it here in Greece, and you can find it in Cyprus too.
They also write that the smell is almost like a rose. Well, i agree because i've smell it and the fragrance is like a rose but it's more intense. You can make a liqueur too with the leaves and i think that i've taste it before because it's familiar to me.

It's a plant, like a bush, which there are some flowers too. The shape of the petals and the color, reminds me like it's a mouth of a dragon.

I found it in my grandmother's yard, which is surrounded with many flowers too, and they have all bloomed because it's the last month of the spring.

Clearly i'm not a professional photographer, i just used my phone and i did my best. The sunlight helped me as well for getting that higlight in every photo.
Those are the original photos of the Pelargonium graveolens
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| Photos by | @georgia11 |
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| Camera | Redmi note 11 |



Wow nice these photos looks very good,
I think these flowers are Arabian jasmine or not I don't know but these looks good.
Appreciate your photography
I searched them with google lens to be sure of what flower is that.
So which was it
It's pelargonium graveolens