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<p>[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 9737624, member: 29"]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. </p><p><br /></p><p>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. </p><p><br /></p><p>The ones on the plate look to be a confused version of wild cherry or almond.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 9737624, member: 29"]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.[/QUOTE]
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