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Specific Families and Genera => Primula => Topic started by: tboland on April 23, 2008, 02:25:20 AM

Title: unknown primula
Post by: tboland on April 23, 2008, 02:25:20 AM

This primula is in the collection at our botanical garden, labelled as flagellaris.  The leaves appear too smooth margins for that species.  The leaves are actually quite glandular.  Anyone recognize it?

Title: Re: unknown primula
Post by: Lesley Cox on April 23, 2008, 04:10:11 AM

From the foliage it looks like something in the auricula group. Flagellaris is (I think) a petiolarid species. Or am I thinking of something else altogether?  :-[ :-\  :-[

Title: Re: unknown primula
Post by: Martijn on April 24, 2008, 08:50:45 PM

no idea what is is but it has nice flowers! Leaves look like auricula/hirsuta flowers something from minima or tyrolensis.

Is it fertile? You don´t happen to know the origin?

Greetz, Martijn

Title: Re: unknown primula
Post by: David Nicholson on April 24, 2008, 09:02:40 PM

Todd, do you have access to 'Primula' by John Richards? If not let me know and I will quote what he says about Primula flagellaris.

Title: Re: unknown primula
Post by: Michael J Campbell on April 24, 2008, 09:04:45 PM

Looks like Integrifolia, but maybe not.

Title: Re: unknown primula
Post by: tboland on April 26, 2008, 01:19:10 AM

I'm tending towards a minima type hybrid...it is certainly in the hirsuta group....the leaves are not quite tootheds enough for minima but the flowers are nearly stemless..I'll have to check the records at work...most of the primula came from SRGS seed back in the early '80's but others came a now defunked alpine nursery in British Columbia.