I bought this plant from Lowe's a few years ago. It grows great every year in the same pot. I'm considering putting some of this in a batch of beer, but must first know if it is edible. It has a very pungent, sweet/sour, aroma almost like a combination of kiwi/strawberry/grapefruit.
I think you are correct on "G. x cantabrigiense". Thanks for posting that! See what the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture has to say about Geranium x cantabrigiense ‘Karmina’ – Karmina Geranium.
The original question of edibility still has not been answered. Does anyone know if this plant is edible or not?
Some Geraniums flowers are edible..See under scented pelargoniums http://www.thompson-morgan.com/edible-flowers Quote...."Scented pelargoniums Geranium clorinda, Geranium fragrans, Geranium graveolens, Geranium quercifolia, Geranium tomentosum The leaves have a powerful citrus fragrance and will add flavour to cakes and meringue roulades. The flowers have a faint citrus flavour similar to the leaves and are ideal crystallised and scattered on desserts." http://www.geraniumsonline.com/recipes.htm
Yes, but let's not forget that the list only includes Pelargonium species, which - despite the misleading common name - are not true geraniums, such as the plant we talk about here. Species belonging to the genus Geranium are not considered edible. In a way you can say that they are edible since they tend not to be poisonous, they are just not quite suitable for human consumption.
www.pfaf.org (Plants for a Future database) is always a good place to check on the edibility of various plants. They list 24 Geranium species (they list Pelargoniums separately, so are not confusing the two), with 11 of them listed as edible--though not always good...they use an edibility scale of 1-5 ('5' being tasty, '1' being technically edible). All but one of the edible species listed gets a '1'. Yours (catabrigiense) isn't on the list.
