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Specific Families and Genera => Primula => Topic started by: Giles on January 29, 2009, 08:39:07 PM
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Some primulas in flower:
Back left: P.moupinensis
Back right: P. x scapeosa (P.scapigera x P. bracteosa)
Front: P.petiolaris
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Giles, do you find that P. x Scapeosa is or can be stoloniferous? I no longer have this hybrid but a few Australian friends have one which looks exactly like it but sends stolons out freely, especially along the edge of a concrete path, or along wooden sleepers or fallen tree fern trunks and grows into quite large mats. They aren't sure of its source and can't remember a name - if it ever had one for them. It would be good to identify it properly.
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Dear Lesley,
I only got the P. x scapeosa from Ron McB last June, and it hasn't produced any stolons so far.
I have both of its parents P. bracteosa and P. scapigera and both of them do produce stolons with me, so it might just be a matter of time.
The worst one for stolons with me is P.hoffmaniana which becomes a total mess in no time at all.
Giles
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Primula hoffmaniana .....don't know that name... is it syonymous with something else, Giles?
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ummmm...
I gather it was decided that what was originally introduced and labelled as P.moupinensis wasn't really a P.moupinensis (and it was renamed P.hoffmaniana)
and then they found something far more exciting to call the 'real' P.moupinensis.
P.hoffmanina is little more than a weed/rampant ground cover.
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Thanks, Giles, I really must pay more attention when "they" fiddle with the names!
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You mean there's actually a "bad" primula? And I assumed every p was a good p.
In view of the x Scapeosa parent making stolons, it's possible either one of those is the Australian plant. I'll keep that in mind next time I'm over there. (Love the way I say that, as if it could be next week.) 8)
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You mean there's actually a "bad" primula? And I assumed every p was a good p.
In view of the x Scapeosa parent making stolons, it's possible either one of those is the Australian plant. I'll keep that in mind next time I'm over there. (Love the way I say that, as if it could be next week.) 8)
Lesley,
I think we have the name now , P.x scapeosa , the one that romps over wooden sleepers in my garden ,and it tolerated the 43C heat reasonably well today .
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OK, I'm late reading this..... there are stoloniferous Primulas??? :o :o :o :o :o
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Well, yes, actually. That is, they are creeping perhaps rather than truly stoloniferous, crawling over the ground (or sleepers in Otto's garden) to make a nice patch. Seems to apply to generallylow plants such as P. juliae and some of the Petiolares section such as the hybrid x Scapeosa (scapigera x bracteosa).
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It never ceases to amaze me the things you can learn here. Before this topic I honestly never would have thought there were creeping Primulas. :o
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There's much more things you don't know yet Paul.. ;D ;)
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Luc,
If I thought I knew everything there is to know, I'd likely top myself. No point living if there's nothing new to learn. ;D