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The Quarterly of the American Primrose Society Autumn 2017 Vol Primroses The Quarterly Of The American Primrose Society Autumn 2017 Vol. 75 No. 4 American Primrose Society Autumn 2017 OFFICERS Primroses Editor Rhondda Porter, Acting Jane Guild The View from Here President/Vice President 2546 Wentwich Road Primroses 3604 Jolly Roger Crescent Victoria BC V9B 3N4 Canada [email protected] JULIA HALDORSON, Pender Island, BC V0N 2M2 The Quarterly of the [email protected] Editorial Committee MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY American Primrose Society Maedythe Martin Michael Plumb, Secretary Judith Sellers Michael Plumb 3604 Jolly Roger Crescent Alan Lawrence Membership in the American Primrose Society runs Pender Island, BC V0N 2M2 Joan Hoeffel on the calendar year and includes four issues of our Volume 75 No 4 Autumn 2017 [email protected] Editorial Deadlines journal “Primroses”; the first issue being Winter, on Winter issue - October 15 The purpose of this Society is to bring the Jon Kawaguchi, Treasurer Spring issue - January 15 to Spring, Summer and with Fall, the last issue for 3524 Bowman Court Summer issue - April 15 the year. 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Half page: $60 1/4 page: $30 1/8 page: $15 Front Cover: Kevin Baker’s seedling from Derek Salt’s Color: seed. More polys from Derek available in the seed Half page: $150 Full page: $300 exchange. Back Cover: $450 Contact the treasurer for details. Back Cover: Primula rusbyi seed capsules from Kevin Baker. American Primrose Society Autumn 2017 Distant Cousins Additional Notes Recent molecular studies show that the genera Douglasia (found in NOTES FROM WIKIPEDIA BY THE EDITOR north-western North America and easternmost Siberia), Pomatosace (an Himalayan endemic) and Vitaliana (a European endemic) are nested within Androsace.[3][6]Phylogenetic studies have also demonstrated that Sometimes we forget the other memebers of the family Primulacea. A quick scan of the ancestor of Androsace first appeared about 35 million years ago and Wikipedia provided the following information. For rock gardeners there are some was most probably an annual species.[7] Evolution towards the denser interesting footnotes. Many of these are available in the APS Seed Exchange. morphology of cushions took place two times independently in Asia and in Europe. Douglasia and Vitaliana were formerly treated as separate Dodecatheon genera. Dodecatheon (comomonly known as Shooting Star) is related to the genus Primula (primroses and related plants); in fact, Primula without Dodecatheon Cyclamen is paraphyletic. One way of avoiding this is to move the Dodecatheon species Cyclamen is a genus of 23 species of perennial flowering plants in the into Primula. If this is done, the former genus Dodecatheon becomes a family Primulaceae. Cyclamen species are native to Europe and the monophyletic section, Primula subg. Auriculastrum sect. Dodecatheon (L.) Mediterranean Basin east to Iran, with one species in Somalia. They A.R.Mast & Reveal. There are 17 species. (James L. Reveal. “Revision of grow from tubers and are valued for their flowers with upswept petals Dodecatheon (Primulaceae)”. apparently prepared for Flora of North America) and variably patterned leaves. It was traditionally classified Androsace in the family Primulaceae, was reclassified in the Androsace, commonly known as Rock Jasmine, is a genus in the family family Myrsinaceae in Primulaceae, second only to Primula in number of species. It is a 2000, and finally, in 2009 predominantly Arctic–alpine genus with many species in the Himalayas with the introduction of (where the genus originated), the mountains of central Asia, the Caucasus, the APG III system, was and the southern and central European mountain systems, particularly returned to the subfamily the Alps and the Pyrenees. Myrsinoideae within the Plants of this genus are sometimes known as rock jasmines or fairy family Primulaceae. candelabras and are widely cultivated for their dense cushions covered in Serious cyclamen growers white or pink flowers. There are about 110 species. don’t seem to think of it first of all as being in the Dionysia family Primulaceae. They just think of them as cyclamen. Dionysia is a genus containing 49 species of flowering plantsin the family PLANTS SENT BARE-ROOTED TO THE Primulaceae. They are small, cushion-forming alpines native to mountains U.S. WITH PHYTOSANITARY in central Asia. They are usually evergreen perennials with felted leaves, CERTIFICATE. covered with bright yellow or pink, five-petalled flowers in spring.They are often difficult to cultivate if the correct conditions are not provided. American Primrose Society Autumn 2017 Dodecatheon Androsace Androsace_cylindrica_(hybrids)_2 By Ghislain118 httpwww.fleurs-des- montagnes.net - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, httpscommons.wikimedia. orgwindex.phpcurid=12803678 Dionysia By jkirkhart35 - originally uploaded to Flickr as Shooting Star (Dodecatheon Dionysia_lamingtonii_001_GotBot_2016 By Averater - Own work, CC BY 4.0, clevelandii), CC BY 2.0, httpscommons.wikimedia.orgwindex.phpcurid=9110740 httpscommons.wikimedia.orgwindex.phpcurid=47149263 American Primrose Society Autumn 2017 Cyclalmen Donating & Ordering Seeds L e f t : C y c l a m e n _ balearicum_Mallorca_ 003 By Orchi - Self- The 2017-2018 APS p h o t o g r a p h e d , CC BY-SA 3.0, Seed Exchange list httpscommons. of available seeds wikimedia.orgwindex. phpcurid=3795464 will be on the APS website in late Below: By Abalg - Own December, with a product suggest by :The cyclamen society Grey- link to Instructions Wilson C. - Cyclamen: and a printable Order A Guide to Gardeners, Horticulturists and Form. Members Botanists (New edition), may also request a Timber Press Inc., Portland, Oregon, 2003 This seed pod was so excited, it printed copy of the background map from split its outer skin getting ready Image:Blank map of List, Instructions South Europe and North for the Seed Exchange! and Order Form by Africa.svg by Historicair, under licenses GFDL sending a stamped, & CC-BY-SA-2.5., CC BY-SA 3.0, https:// s e l f - a d d r e s s e d commons.wikimedia. envelope to Amy org/w/index. php?curid=3841839 Olmsted 421 Birch Road, Hubbardton, VT 05733 And remember: it’s not too late to send in your seed Look for Auricula x from Maedythe donations! Martin in the Seed Exchange. In the USA send seed to: Amy Olmsted 421 Birch Road, Hubbardton, VT 05733 Send seed from Canada and outside North America to: M. Martin 951 Joan Crescent, Victoria, BC V8S3L3 Canada American Primrose Society Autumn 2017 Martin Davies Jane: How do you manage the farina? 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