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Primulaceae
Japanese Primrose
Primula japonica
Youth and early love.
- Family
- Primulaceae
- Genus
- Primula
- Native to
- Japan
- Bloom season
- Spring, Summer
- Type
- perennial
- Height
- 1-2 ft
- Sunlight
- partial shade
- Soil
- moist, humus-rich
- Water
- high
- Hardiness
- 4-8
- Lifespan
- perennial
Did you know
- It is one of the few primroses that thrives in boggy, waterlogged soils near streams and ponds.
- Flowers appear in striking candelabra-like tiers, with up to six whorls stacked along a single stem.
- It was introduced to Western horticulture in 1871 by Robert Fortune from the mountains of Japan.
- Japanese primrose can naturalize aggressively in ideal moist conditions, forming large colonies.
- In Japan it is called 'kurinso,' meaning chestnut flower, because the seeds resemble small chestnuts.
Color meanings
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young love
1
patience
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devotion