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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: ArdfearnAli on April 18, 2018, 03:32:10 PM

Title: Chance seedlings found at nursery?
Post by: ArdfearnAli on April 18, 2018, 03:32:10 PM

Hi there I found a few chance seedlings in the Alpine house a couple of years ago and they are flowering now?
The first is perhaps primula ruprechtii or a yellow amoena??
The second is Olsynium junceum??
The third is an Olsynium??

Can any one help

Alasdair

Title: Re: Chance seedlings found at nursery?
Post by: shelagh on April 19, 2018, 01:51:37 PM

That Primula is beautiful the Olsynium's aren't bad either.

Title: Re: Chance seedlings found at nursery?
Post by: ArdfearnAli on April 19, 2018, 02:34:16 PM

You can.t see the leaves of the primula but they does look a bit like Pr. Amoena leaves but not quite right (almost primrose like) I have been hand pollinating it recently so hope I will get some seed and as it is isolated hopefully it will come true. There were a few other seedlings but they were a poor purplish yellow/brown which I didn't keep. Weird thing is I didn't have anything resembling the primula in the alpine house at all so no idea where it came from? I do have olsyinium junceum, narcissiflorum and filifolium so could perhaps be a hybrid. but I have never had one with such dark purple markings before. Whatever it is I have hand pollinated it and hope to get seed and multiply it in the future.

Thanks
Alasdair

Title: Re: Chance seedlings found at nursery?
Post by: Véronique Macrelle on April 20, 2018, 06:02:02 AM

Olsynium has a very cheerful flower !