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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: JohnnyD on March 27, 2022, 11:57:22 AM

Title: Shoulda labelled!
Post by: JohnnyD on March 27, 2022, 11:57:22 AM

Can anyone please identify this tiny primula with its' dark foliage please. We have had it some years and the label has vanished. JohnnyD

Title: Re: Shoulda labelled!
Post by: Palustris on March 27, 2022, 02:55:34 PM

Looks like one of the colour forms of Primula 'Garryarde Guinevere' to me. But then what do I know?

Title: Re: Shoulda labelled!
Post by: MarcR on March 28, 2022, 04:12:57 AM

This is not an exact match but I think it gives a clue to the liniage of yours.

Primula polyanthus 'Francisca'.

Title: Re: Shoulda labelled!
Post by: MarcR on March 28, 2022, 04:29:07 AM

JohnnyD,

Primula 'Garryarde Guinevere'
seems to be correct, as Palustris suggested.

"Primula 'Guinevere' or 'Garryard Guinivere' or 'Guinivere'

"We are pleased to be able to offer this very old named variety. It has purplish-bronze leaves and umbels of pink yellow-eyed flowers. The whole plant has a magical shimmery quality to it. Polyanthus form.It was apparently raised at Kinlough, County Leitrim in Ireland by Mrs Johnson but it's real origins are a bit bit of a mystery. "




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Title: Re: Shoulda labelled!
Post by: JohnnyD on March 28, 2022, 02:23:39 PM

Thanks everyone. JohnnyD