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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Magnar on June 29, 2007, 11:45:03 AM

Title: Unknown Primula
Post by: Magnar on June 29, 2007, 11:45:03 AM

(http://www.magnar.aspaker.no/Primula1.jpg)

I got this Primula labelled Primula florida. From pics on the net I don't think that is correct. So I would be happy if anybody can identify it for me.

Thanks, Magnar

Title: Re: Unknown Primula
Post by: Paddy Tobin on June 29, 2007, 05:50:23 PM

Magnar,

Pure guess here, but could it be a cortusa - Cortusa matthiola, perhaps?

Paddy

Title: Re: Unknown Primula
Post by: Magnar on June 29, 2007, 05:55:23 PM

No it is not a Corthusa. I have several Corthusas in my garden, and this Primula has much bigger flowers than the Corthusas. But judging from the foliage I guess it might be in the Corthusoides section of Primulas.

Title: Re: Unknown Primula
Post by: Lesley Cox on July 01, 2007, 05:55:17 AM

Primula polyneura maybe? though I think that has bell-shaped flowers.

Title: Re: Unknown Primula
Post by: Magnar on July 01, 2007, 04:02:57 PM

I've been thinking of P. polyneura myself, but my plant is not quite like the pics I find on the net or in books.

Title: Re: Unknown Primula
Post by: kalle-k.dk on July 05, 2007, 09:03:38 PM

I think it is right Magnars Primula came from the Cortusoides section, but I am not sure it is P. polyneura. According to John Richards book have P. polyneura greenish-yellow to orange eyes. I look on the description of the members of the Cortusoides section and can only find P. geraniifolia the got a white eye. I think also I can remember Primula minkwitziae got at white eye, but I am not sure.

Karl Kristensen.
Denmark
www.kalle-k.dk

Title: Re: Unknown Primula
Post by: Magnar on July 05, 2007, 10:28:00 PM

I think P. geraniifolia is the best suggestion so far. There are very few photos of it on the net though,, I only found one, and it didn't really look like my plant, even if the leaves were pretty much the same. I guess there might be variations within the genus.

Title: Re: Unknown Primula
Post by: bdp on July 07, 2008, 09:31:09 PM

Hello Magnar.

Was surfing the forum and read your post on the primula species...I grow a variety of primula...whatever I can get in the exchanges and would hazard a guess that the mystery plant is primula kisoana...fairly common and readily available.  See the following website.

http://www.primulaworld.com/PWweb/photogallery.htm

Take care.

Brian