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Specific Families and Genera => Primula => Topic started by: robg on June 14, 2011, 02:18:44 PM

Title: Primula firmipes or florindae
Post by: robg on June 14, 2011, 02:18:44 PM

I have a small yellow primula a year old that has just come in to flower and is label-less.  The next pot to it is labelled P. Firmipes, but I do have other pots labelled P. Florindae.  It's a very juvenile plant, but is there some characteristic that I can identify it between these two.

Thanks, Rob

Title: Re: Primula firmipes or florindae
Post by: Maggi Young on June 14, 2011, 06:44:02 PM

Here are links to the two in the flora of China online, Rob.

They are both in the section Sikkimensis but firmipes is a neat little thing and florindae can be a real giant.
Even juvenile florindae foliage tends to be pretty "beefy".
P,  firmipes is a gentle yellow whereas florindae can be pale, strong yeloow, orange or red tones and just about everything inbetween.

Title: Re: Primula firmipes or florindae
Post by: Maggi Young on June 14, 2011, 07:00:27 PM

firmipes:  leaves long petiolate, ovate to suborbiculate, 1-7cm, deeply crenate-dentate, obtuse, umbels 2-8-flowered, limb 13-20mm in diam., lobes obovate, emarginate or crenate
Size 10-40cm  Colour   yellow        Bloom   late spring     
florindae:  leaves petiolate, broadly ovate-oblong to elliptic, 3-15cm, glabrous, cordate, obtuse, umbel 15-30-flowered, limb 10-20mm in diam., lobes obovate, subemarginate
Size 30-100cm  Colour yellow        Bloom   summer   

Title: Re: Primula firmipes or florindae
Post by: Great Moravian on June 16, 2011, 01:34:13 PM

My problem too. My first Primula firmipes was certainly the robust Primula florindae.
But the new plant is finer and flowers now, or has flowered for two weeks now.
Because I possess no digital camera, it is necessary to be patient.

Title: Re: Primula firmipes or florindae
Post by: robg on June 27, 2011, 03:06:32 PM

Thanks Maggi and GM - P. Firmipes it is for the moment  ???  With the comment that even juvenile Florindae leaves are easy to spot, Firmipes it most likely is.

Rob

Title: Re: Primula firmipes or florindae
Post by: Great Moravian on July 15, 2011, 04:44:31 PM

My plant. Primula firmipes, florindae or something else.


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Title: Re: Primula firmipes or florindae
Post by: Maggi Young on July 15, 2011, 05:20:34 PM

No picture of the leaves, Josef?

Title: Re: Primula firmipes or florindae
Post by: Great Moravian on July 18, 2011, 03:03:27 PM

Quote from: Maggi Young on July 15, 2011, 05:20:34 PM

No picture of the leaves, Josef?

Maggi,
I possess no digital camera, it is a scanned colour print. During scanning
I realized the low quality of images and therefore returned the film
and images to the laboratory. In reality I ordered Kodak prints and
obtained Fujicolor prints which are not faithful. Now I await
the results of my complaint. Leaves are on the film.

Title: Re: Primula firmipes or florindae
Post by: Great Moravian on July 25, 2011, 02:29:12 PM

Leaves.


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