The primrose is a beautiful flower, that blooms in Spring, and can be found either in the wild nature or in planted in a garden.
Let’s find out more about it!
- Primula vulgaris is the scienftific name of primrose.
- The common primrose, is a species of flowering plant in the family Primulaceae.
- It is native to western and southern Europe, northwest Africa, and parts of southwest Asia.
- The common name is primrose, or occasionally common primrose or English primrose to distinguish it from other Primula species also called primroses.
- None of these are closely related to the evening primroses (genus Oenothera).
- There are about 500 to 600 species of primroses.
- Primroses chiefly occurring in the Northern Hemisphere in cool or mountainous regions.
- Most are perennial though some species are annuals.
- Most species grow 25 to 50 centimeters (10 to 20 inches) tall.
- This rule doesn’t apply every time, because sometimes the primroses are as short as 5 centimeters (2 inches) and others as tall as 1.2 meters (4 feet).
- Primroses are mostly herbaceous.
- They have no woody stem.
- The stalked leaves may be long and narrow or roundish and are crowded together.
- On the lower side the midrib is often prominent.
- The stalked flowers may be solitary, as in the common primrose (P. vulgaris), or more usually borne in loose umbels.
- The flowers have five petals and may be red, pink, purple, blue, white, or yellow. Some species and varieties also bear bi-colored flowers.
- Many species are cultivated for their attractive flowers.
- If a primrose begins as an ovary and inside it are the future seeds.
- The main meanings of primrose flower are: youth, love, birth.
- As women bring new lives to this world, primrose flower also stands for women and their beauty.
- As primrose flower blooms in the early spring.
- The flowers of some primroses, especially Primula vulgaris, are edible. They can be eaten raw in salads or as an edible garnish.
- Its taste mostly reminds you of lettuce.
- When ingested, primrose can cause animals some medical problems. It’s a poisonous plant but only to animals.
- In traditional herbal medicine, cowslip wine, made from Primula veris, was used as a sedative.
- The Queen’s primrose wreath bore a note saying “his favourite flower” but it has never been clear whether she meant Disraeli’s favourite flower or her late husband Prince Albert’s.
- Every year on April 19 primroses are placed by Disraeli’s statue outside Westminster Abbey.
- In 1883 the political organisation the Primrose League was founded in 1883 in memory of Disraeli.
- According to an old English superstition a child who ate a Primrose might see a fairy.
- In Germany it was thought that the first girl to find a primrose at Easter would marry that year.
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