Talk:Primula

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Primula is included in the 2007 Wikipedia for Schools, or is a candidate for inclusion in future versions. Please maintain high quality standards, and make an extra effort to include free images, because non-free images cannot be used on the CDs.

I thought we were supposed to use the common names for things as well known as primroses?! Plugwash 00:54, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I think in this case it is a little more complex. While most of the members of the genus Primula are known as primroses, not all have vernacular names (e.g. Primula clusiana which grows in no English-speaking area and so has no English name), and some of those that do are not called "primrose". Thus, Primula covers a broader group of species than "primrose", including cowslips, oxslips, bear's-ear or auricle, Primula clusiana, etc.. A separate article could be created for "primrose", but it would need to read "a more or less arbitrary group of species from the genus Primula". I would be happy to see primrose as the location of the current Primula vulgaris article, with an additional note that "many other species in the same genus are also called 'primrose'", but that may not please others (Americans?) who refer to the species as "English primrose". --Stemonitis 08:25, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image in taxobox

I replaced the image in the taxobox because it was so over exposed that you cannot see any detail in the plant at all. It was reverted because my picture was not wild. I ask what is more important, that the plant be wild, or that you can see the detail in the plant? ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 13:21, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

I have replaced it with a picture of a wild primrose without the overexposure. There's not a lot of detail to be seen on primrose petals, anyway, so overexposure isn't such a problem, but the current image satisfies both criteria. --Stemonitis 07:52, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

It looks good. Still not the best exposure, but a lot better than before. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 13:03, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hybrids?

noticed we havn't mentioned hybrids or listed them in the species list (eg. Primula veris x vulgaris (False Oxlip))

Is there an authoritative list of (presumably natural) hybrids to work from? That's usually the problem with these lists, people add randomly with whatever they know about, difficult from verify from source works later. Human-produced hybrids should go into a separate section I think. Stan 04:20, 7 May 2007 (UTC)