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Scientific Name: | Primula malacoides |
Common Name: | fairy primrose |
Family Name: | Primulaceae |
Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 8a: (-12 to -9.5 °C) |
Plant Type: | Annual (grown as), Flowering pot plant |
Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
Habit: | Upright |
Form: | Mounded |
Texture: | Medium |
Landscape Uses: | Alpine, Bedding plant, Container planting, Indoor plant |
Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
Soil or Media: | Humus rich |
Leaves: | Simple, Basal, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Pinnate venation, Tomentose, Elliptic, Ovate, Crenate |
Flowers: | Panicle, White, Violet, Purple, Pink, Magenta, Red, Feb-Mar-Apr |
Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, May-Jun |
Key ID Features: | |
Leaves basal, oval, 4-8cm long leaves, margins scalloped (irregularly toothed/ incised); flowers with 5 notched petals, mostly in shades of pink to purple mostly with some yellow on the throat (all white cv. available), 20-30 per panicle. |