Primula malacoides
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Read about Primula malacoides in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Primula malacoides, Franch. Fairy Primrose. Fig. 3184. A slender and open grower, 8-20 in. high, larger and more branched than P. Forbesii, somewhat hairy below with white hairs, glabrous above: lvs. thin-papery, glabrescent, broad-ovate, under surface sometimes sparsely white-farinose, upper pale green, the base open-cordate, broadly 6-8-lobed, the lobes acutely incise-dentate; the petiole exceeding the blade: scape more or less exceeding the lvs., bearing 2-6 many-fld. superposed umbels which are distant from each other: bracts short, linear-lanceolate, acute, white-farinose below: fls. rose and lilac; calyx densely white-farinose, campanulate from a spherical base, with the lobes short, acute, and spreading; corolla-tube cylindrical, slender, the limb a little concave, 3/8-1/2in. across, with obcordate lobes: caps. globose, included. China. Intro. 1908. G.C. III. 44:396, 397; 52:308. R.H. 1912:156. Gn. 76, p. 157; 77, p. 291, 624. J.H. III. 60:399. G. 31:53. G.M. 51:914; 56:917. G.W. 13, p. 42. Var. alba, Hort., has white fls. Var. plena, Hort., has double fls. G.C. III. 54:428.—An excellent greenhouse species, blooming well in winter. Although perennial, it is usually treated as an annual; seed sown in spring should produce flowering plants in autumn. It blooms several months, bearing fls. in successive whorls on very slender sts., which sometimes reach a height of 18 in. It is now common in cult., and self-sows about the greenhouse. Several shades of color are represented, and also large- fld. forms which are possibly hybrids (see G.C. III. 55:180). The plant grows well out-of-doors in the rock-garden in mild climates, with some protection. Often confounded with baby primrose (P. Forbesii), but the oblong long-petioled lvs. at once distinguish it, as well as the tall and open infl. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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