Flower Help on Platter

No ID needed. My flower knowledge is quite lacking.

 

Maybe almond blossoms?

 

Look like primroses to me. And they are an old-fashioned flower.

Debora

 

Hm. Unless you guys have a different name, neither the flowers on the plate or those in the photo are primroses. Colour, shape and display are all wrong.

primroses, primula vulgaris, are yellow or cream in the wild. The flowers are held on stems which spring from rosettes of long slightly pointed leaves with a very prominent centre vein. There’s some coloured cultivars, hybrids, polyanthus, but those are of a similar growing habit.

The ones on the plate look to be a confused version of wild cherry or almond.

 

wikipedia.org disagrees.

Debora

 

Maybe just "prunus", which tends to be a catchall for non-specific blossoms.

 

Wikipedia is confused then.

seriously, where is wiki showing that as primrose?

This seems to be the main entry for primroses. They rampage in the wild here, I love them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primula_vulgaris

 

Thanks everyone for the input. Might be a tough one to describe.

 

Could be. North American plant names are often unrelated to the original plant names. Early settlers clearly weren't botanists.

 

Oenothera speciosa (AKA: Evening Primrose)

Oenothera speciosa - Wikipedia

 

Oh, that’s a totally different plant completely! I also grow oenothera. In some countries they’re known as evening primroses, but they’re an entirely different species from primroses. Which are primula vulgaris.

This is an exemplar of why I use Latin botanical names, not common names.

in any event, I’d say it’s one of the prunus species. The leaves are all wrong for oenothera, too.

 

So do I. That is to say, they visited our garden and never left. They are very welcome though.

Absolutely.
In Dutch the oenothera is called teunisbloem, the primrose is called primula. Another good reason to learn Dutch, less confusion.

Agreed.

 

I know you don't need an ID but it looks like a Limoges platter that's been hobbyist painted. If it was found in North America it may be a take-off on Noritake's Azalea pattern which was very popular around the time frame this platter would have been imported. I'm not sure it really looks like an Azalea but neither did Noritake's version IMHO.

 

I agree. Being hobbyist painted (and quite nicely!) it could be pretty much anything -- a nice pink flower with some green tracery. I thought it was apple blossom at first.

 

dgbjwc, plate is Hutschenreuther.