gerania

Some gerania, aloes, ficoids, &c. which are propagated from a leaf either artificially planted or even dropping from the parent plant, reſemble the tænia whoſe joints or whoſe veſicles are ſeparated and form a perfect animal: yet each is alſo propagated in the ordinary way from an egg or ſeed; and we need not, without neceſſity, have recourſe to ſuch indiſcriminate arbitrary methods of cutting the knot which we may be able to untie.

1799, The Critical Review; Or, Annals of Literature, volume 26, London: S. Hamilton, page 184

During those two or three hours of frost, all the heliotropes and dahlias were cut off; the former become almost black, as if scorched. Some tender shoots of the vines also were injured, but the scarlet runners and gerania were sound.

1838, The Magazine of Domestic Economy, volume 4, page 155

Now: the sheets are done, the roast’s in the oven, the gerania are on the verandum, the cakes are burning—no, not yet—soon.

a. 2002, John McGrath, John McGrath: Plays for England, University of Exeter Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 329

Geraniums - I found a rose geranium that smells heavenly and is quite attractive in its own stout, shrubby sorta way -- and then it died because I overwatered the crap out of it. Gerania are much tougher than you think they oughta be, with their sissified pretty flower crap and the nice smells. But tough. Wonderfully tough.

2004 September 21, mroo philpott-smythe, “Re: Ot: Gardening, Flowers”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet), message-ID <414FF453.2080106@idiom.com>

> > Get in the geraniums. I heard on the weather forecast that Spring has / ... / > Don't forget the plants. / The gerania stopped outside and are doing fine. They are much tougher than are usually creditted.^([sic])

2005 April 10, Paul Leyland, “Re: Put your winter woolies back on”, in uk.misc (Usenet), message-ID <m3vf6vt11l.fsf@athlon.chez-leyland.com>