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Another one of the poor dear doomed petiolarid primulas from Hartside Nursery. Their label says: "An easy and reliable plant from the Petiolaris section with many pink flowers in the early spring. Best out of direct sun." John Richards identifies it as a hybrid and says: "P. scapigera x P. bracteosa 'scapeosa' (AM 1947) (2n =22) has foliage identical to P. scapigera, but brilliant rose flowers of a good texture, with a narrow white ring and neat short teeth. It is slightly fertile, and when it seeds it throws scape-buds like P. bracteosa. In the 1970s, this was an extremely vigorous, although virused clone, which showed rapid multiplication. In some gardens it was literally grown by the thousand.Between 1980 and 1982 it almost completely disappeared everywhere, presumably as a result of a build-up of virus from an early infection before the clone was spread around the world. However, it still survives in very small quantity (2001)." In the AGS notes of Plant Awards for 1947 it says: Primula x scapeosa Primulacaeae Shown on March 18th, 1947, by R. B. Cooke, Northumberland. (Award of Merit). A hybrid raised by the exhibitor between A few years later David Livingstone added in the Bulletin: "P. scapigera x P. bracteosa. This hybrid more closely resembles bracteosa but there are occasional leaves that look almost typically P. scapigera, being the same pale green and having a winged leaf stalk irregularly and coarsely cut. Its flowers, too, are closer to bracteosa than to scapigera and it has the same characteristic as the former in that it throws a vegetative bud at the end of the flowering scape. It is a good grower, being perhaps slightly more robust than P. bracteosa." |
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