Harry Potter Wiki
Register
Advertisement
Harry Potter Wiki

"A common garden plant that is known to bite or attack if not taken care of. Its fangs are used in many simple potions and in cooking."
— Description on seed packet at Dogweed and Deathcap[src]

A Fanged Geranium was a magical flower with sharp teeth.[1][5] Its fangs were used as potion ingredients, as well as in wizarding foodstuffs.[4]

They were also an ingredient in the Strength Potion,[6][7] as well as in Skele-Gro.[6] Fanged Geranium seeds were sold at Dogweed and Deathcap and Bewildering Blooms.[4][8]

History[]

"They had their Herbology exam on Wednesday (other than a small bite from a Fanged Geranium, Harry felt he had done reasonably well)..."
— The Herbology O.W.L. exam in 1996[src]

This plant was covered in fifth-year Herbology lessons in the 1988–1989 school year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.[3]

Jacob's sibling watering a Fanged Geranium HM59

Jacob's sibling watering a Fanged Geranium in Herbology

This was one of the plants covered in 1996 as a part of the O.W.L. practical for Herbology at Hogwarts. Harry Potter received a minor bite from one during his exam.[1]

Fanged Geranium

A large Fanged Geranium in one of the Hogwarts greenhouses

There was widespread historical speculation that the Muggle War of the Roses actually started with wizarding neighbours arguing over a Fanged Geranium.[9]

Fanged Geraniums were mentioned in an advertisement for the Toots, Shoots 'n' Roots radio show that was printed in Rumours!. The ad copy asked, "Fanged Geranium nothing but gums?"[5]

Appearances[]

Wiki
The Harry Potter Wiki has 7 images related to Fanged Geranium.

Notes and references[]

Herbology
Pottedmandrake
Herbologists
Astrid Cole · Clifford Cromwell · Marmaduke Dale · Blossom Degrasse · Miranda Goshawk · Alfred Lawley · Olgae Marinus · Beaumont Marjoribanks · Nepali wizard · Gethsemane Prickle · Sanjay Shanker · Selina Sapworthy · Phyllida Spore · Yubert Thorne · Tilden Toots · Hadrian Whittle · Winogrand
Herbology at Hogwarts
Herbology Award · Herbology Lesson Cup · Herbology Race Cup · Herbology Store · Hidden Herbology Corridor
Greenhouses One · Two · Three · Four · Five · Six · Seven · Professor's office
Professors Mirabel Garlick's predecessor · Mirabel Garlick · Herbert Beery · Pomona Sprout · Neville Longbottom
Textbooks Flesh-Eating Trees of the World · Ingredient Encyclopedia · One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi · Winogrand's Wondrous Water Plants
Plants studied and grown at Hogwarts
Aconite · Alihotsy · Asphodel · Belladonna · Bouncing Bulb · Bubotuber · Bubotuber pus · Chinese Chomping Cabbage · Cowbane · Dandelion · Devil's Snare · Dirigible Plum · Dittany · Fanged Geranium · Fat cactus-like plant · Fire seed bush · Flitterbloom · Floo · Flutterby bush · Fluxweed · Gillyweed · Ginger · Greenhouse Tree · Hemlock · Honking daffodil · Ivy · Knotgrass · Lady's Mantle · Lavender · Leaping Toadstool · Lovage · Mandrake · Mimbulus mimbletonia · Mistletoe · Moly · Nettle · Peppermint · Puffapod · Raspberry · Rose · Sage · Screechsnap · Scurvy grass · Self-fertilising shrub · Shrivelfig · Snargaluff · Sneezewort · Sopophorous plant · Sopophorous Bean · Spiky Bush · Spiky Prickly Plant · Stinksap · Sugar Shrub · Toad-eating plant · Tormentil · Umbrella Flower · Valerian · Vampiric vegetation · Venomous Tentacula · Walking plant · Wax vegetables · Whomping Willow · Wiggentree · Wild rice · Wormwood
Spells taught in Herbology at Hogwarts
Fire-Making Spell (Incendio) · Herbivicus Charm (Herbivicus) · Incendio Duo Spell (Incendio Duo) · Lumos Solem Spell (Lumos Solem) · Severing Charm (Diffindo)
Advertisement