Primula delavayi

Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Primula delavayi, Franch. Plant slightly soft white-hairy pubescent: lvs. long- petiolate, thin-papery, about 3 in. long and almost as broad, broadly ovate or suborbicular, the base more or less cordate, wavy-dentate or crenate: scape produced before the lvs., without bracts, 1-fld., densely pubescent, laxly enveloped up to the middle with fuscous, membranaceous, very broad scales: fls. bright purple; calyx broadly campanulate, deeply parted, with linear-lanceolate lobes about 1/2in. long which are entire or denticulate and acute or obtuse; corolla outside pilose, the funnel form tube broad, slightly constricted above the base, then gradually broadened, the throat sprinkled with hairs, with oblong-ovate incised lobes: caps. ovate-oblong, 3/4-1 in. long, 3/8in. thick. S.W. China. VIII. Bullatae. Lvs. strongly rugose or bullate, hairy or glandular, more or less coriaceous, little if any lobed, small (2-4 in.long): fls. pedicelled: China, Thibet. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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.

1. REDIRECT Omphalogramma delavayi