Primula viscosa

Plant Characteristics

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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Primula viscosa in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Primula viscosa, All. (P. latifolia, Lapeyr.). Not farinose: lvs. fairly densely clothed with short discolored glands, intensely rank-smelling, yellowish green, rather soft, often more or less curved, the margin not at all cartilaginous, oval or oblong-cuneate or lanceolate-cuneate, obtuse or acute, gradually narrowed or contracted to a petiole more or less equaling the blade, dentate, wavy-dentate or entire: scape glandular, exceeding the lvs., bearing a several- to many-fld. umbel: bracts broad-ovate: fls. 1-sided, nodding, fragrant, violet or red-violet ; calyx glandular, or even sparingly farinose, narrowly campanulate, split to the middle with the lobes acute or subacute; corolla-tube gradually broadened from the cylindrical base, the throat sparingly farinose, the limb funnelform almost 1/2in. across with emarginate lobes: caps. more or less exceeding the calyx. Mountains of S. Eu., in several forms. Gn. 61, p. 430; 69, p. 186; 73: 572. G.W. 15, p. 272. H.F. 1:242. R.H.S. 39:104. Forma cynoglossifolia, Widm., has lvs. smaller and oval or oblong, entire or only lightly toothed: umbel many-fld. R.H.S. 39:104.—The P. viscosa of commerce, according to MacWatt, is chiefly varieties of P. hirsuta. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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