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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Great Moravian on September 23, 2011, 03:06:46 PM

Title: primula
Post by: Great Moravian on September 23, 2011, 03:06:46 PM: I am moving my query about putative Primula firmipes to the right place now. The plant flowers in June
and is not Primula florindae as my previous alleged Primula firmipes was. But it is
probably not Primula firmipes too because it can be easily cultivated.
Bloom beginning, flower stalks are rather short
(http://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7442.0;attach=306570;image)
Advanced bloom, flower stalks are elongated and upright in the two inflorescences depicted above
(http://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7442.0;attach=304822;image)
2006 sowing, donor to exchange J. R. Potts
Title: Re: primula
Post by: Great Moravian on October 24, 2011, 11:13:58 AM: I wonder why my queries are never replied.
Title: Re: primula
Post by: David Nicholson on October 24, 2011, 12:02:41 PM: I can't be of any help GM and can only offer a few quotes from John Richard's "Primula":-

Primula firmipes: "Another delicate species, differing from P. chumbiensis by the oval leaf blade, to 7x5 cm. with a heart-shaped base, and the angled bell-shaped calyx. The flowers seem to be a soft yellow, rarely red. Seeds 1.5mm. 2n=22. According to DNA studies, closely allied to P. florindae"

"............. Should perhaps be considered as a geographical distinct subspecies of P. reticulata"

".......... Apparently in cultivation by Tromso Botanic Garden in 200, origin unknown, and with Ian Christie in 2002"
Title: Re: primula
Post by: Lotte Hansen on October 24, 2011, 02:39:54 PM: Could it be P. sikkimensis?

Kind regards Lotte
Title: Re: primula
Post by: Great Moravian on October 24, 2011, 03:44:10 PM: Quote from: Lotte Hansen on October 24, 2011, 02:39:54 PM
Could it be P. sikkimensis?

Kind regards Lotte
Lotte,
Thank you for the suggestion.
In Primula sikkimensis the petioles should be winged, blades attenuate below and leaves green.
Primula firmipes would not survive my cultivation.
The plant is probably a garden hybrid. But of which parent species.
Primula sikkimensis might be involved, but the leaves are considerably different.
Primula florindae seems not to be involved because of its robustness and limbs not notched.
Primula alpicola has broader flowers and is larger. The leaves of my plant are similar
but considerably smaller.
Who knows J. R. Potts could ask her/him.