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Primula scotica

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Linda_Foulis:
Can anyone tell me more about this plant?  How rare is it, is it on the endangered list? 

Maggi Young:
Linda, have a look at these pages to see something about the finding/flowering of Primula scotica...
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=85.msg16694;topicseen#msg16694..... especially the posts by Darren Sleep...

Also here for photos etc...
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=155.msg14228;topicseen#msg14228

Maggi Young:
And some pages from the archived Forum : http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/283/15316.html

http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/283/2594.html


http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/283/14481.html

http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/321/22956.html

 Hope that is some help to you.  The old forum is fuuly searchable, though archived,  its home page is:
 http://www.srgc.org.uk/cgi-bin/discus/discus.cgi?pg=topics

Primula scotica has a very restricted distribution in northern Scotland and the Islands......not easy to find anyway, since it is so diminutive... a mature plant would only be two inches or so across and barely that in height   in full flower. Seed scapes might reach up to three inches!

Maggi Young:
Distribution map :
 http://www.searchnbn.net/interactive/map.jsp?srchSp=NBNSYS0000003925&BBOX=-72073.6000000006,518950.399999994,667126.4,1258150.39999999&MAPSERVICE=interactiveGBv4&OS=OS&ghost=1&LAYERS=2,3,4,5,20,500,501,502,503,504,505

Scottish Biodiversity web-page ;
http://www.biodiversityscotland.gov.uk/sbl_detail.php?id=39&type=2&navID=93&pageref=sbl_detail&tvk=NBNSYS0000003925

Casalima:
A couple of photos of P. scotica in the Kew alpine house last Easter. The second one clearly shows how very, very tiny the plants are!

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