Resting No Longer, It's Spring!

Some Primula species spend the winter as conspicuous, above ground resting buds. The mature leaves die back in autumn and a new set of short leaves called bud-scales are grown closely together to form a protective layer around the growth point. These bud-scales are modified leaves that stay...

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Bringing Seeds into Focus

Have you ever seen the book “Seeds:Time Capsules of Life” by Kesseler & Stuppy? It’s a gorgeous coffee table book of false-colored scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of seeds. These types of images can show wonderful detail at the microscopic level and give us more information...

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Leaf Venation in Primula

Venation is the arrangement of veins in a leaf. This arrangement can be a distinguishing characteristic of Primula. Pinnate Venation is vein arrangement in a leaf with one main vein extending from the base to the tip of the leaf and smaller veins branching off the main vein. This is the...

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The Yellow Cortusoides

Primula cortusoides is a pink flowered species which has a wide distribution from Western Europe through Siberia to Mongolia, North Korea and Northwestern China. It is the species which defines the Section Cortusoides, with plants efarinose, but having multicellular hairs, distinctly petiolate...

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Spring 2015 Speaking Dates

Pam Eveleigh will be speaking at:1. Calgary Rock & Alpine Garden Society on Thursday, March 12th, 2015 at 7:30pm. Venue is Lakeview Community Association Hall 6110 - 34 Street SW, Calgary, Alberta.2. The B.C. Primula Group & the Alpine Garden Club of B.C. on Saturday, April 25th,...

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