Primulas 2011.

[DaveM]

Looks very much like P apoclita, same section as P bellidifolia (Muscarioides) but is much shorter in flowering stem height.
Very nice!

[Maggi Young]

Oh, I thought  P. apoclita was taller?   And with longer, narrower tubes? 

[DaveM]

Maggi, I have just looked this up in John R's book. He describes apoclita as having matt leaves that are softly hairy throughout and stem scarcely exceeding the leaves in height and typically not exceeding 16 cm.

Arisaema - was this from wild collected seed? if so then apoclita comes from the Beima Sham area of Yunnan-Sechuan border, whereas bellidifolia is Himalayan.

[Maggi Young]

  Just done the same thing, David.... went to find John's book.   I may have got things back to front.....  again  

Some comparison pictures from Primula World......
http://www.primulaworld.com/pwweb/gallery/slides/apoclitaJR3.html

http://www.primulaworld.com/pwweb/gallery/bellidifolia.html     ..... going by these pix... some of which are from John R of apoclita .....  I am still thinking bellidifolia.........
 

http://www.primulaworld.com/pwweb/gallery/slides/bellidifoliaMT_9652.html
http://www.primulaworld.com/pwweb/gallery/slides/bellidifoliaMT_9661.html

these pictured by Margaret Thorne, wild in the Tsophu Valley, Bhutan.

[ashley]

That's really a beauty Arisaema.

Here a couple from the 2009 seed exchange:
Primula alpicola violacea
Primula flaccida  

[arisaema]

Thanks!  The label says "Primula deflexa, CN: Hongshan, Yunnan, 4600m"; so unless P. bellidifolia has a much wider distribution than what's already known I guess it must be a good form of P. apoclita?

[Olga Bondareva]

Hello ! I collected seeds of this Primula in Tajikistan 2005, and it produced three pink flowers this spring on top a short ( 10cm ) scape. I wonder if it could be P. kaufmanniana, or are there some other species which it resembles more ?

Paul
This primula could be Primula minkwitziae. Look at mine found in Tian-Shan.

[arisaema]

Is this Primula graminifolia, or something else? It looks quite different form all my other P. chionanthas... (Sorry for the picture quality!)

Also below; a rather sad looking P. calderiana and P. chionantha sinopurpurea.

[Olga Bondareva]

arisaema
You show very interesting unusual plants! I like especially P. deflexa and P. calderiana.

[Olga Bondareva]

Primula marginata


Natural hybrid P. ruprechtii x P. amoena


Double P. acaulis sort


Primula denticulata Alba

[Maggi Young]

Natural hybrid P. ruprechtii x P. amoena

-   what a pretty colour

[PaulM]

Thank you for the picture of P. minkwitziae Olga. It looks very similar and could very well be the same. Your photographs are so professional and really stunning. Thank you for sharing !

Here are two not so stunning pictures of what I received as Primula yargongensis, but which I understand is considered a subspecies to P. involucrata, and should thus be called Primula involucrata ssp yargongensis. It is flowering now anyway:

[mark smyth]

I grow some on my shed roof:

I like your shed roof - the best living roof I have seen

[TC]

A couple of primula shots.  The wet /cool weather here has helped the candelabra primulas to bloom.  They are self seeding everywhere.

First picture is Inverewe -  I have several blooming and they are rather variable.  This one came from Arduiane gardens

The second group have been grown from seed sown two years ago

[Giles]

I like them, Tom 
Here, P. florindae: