{"id":8724,"date":"2013-10-12T05:48:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T12:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8724"},"modified":"2013-10-12T08:52:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T15:52:19","slug":"vitaliana-primuliflora-and-its-other-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/alpine-rockery\/vitaliana-primuliflora-and-its-other-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Androsace Vitaliana primuliflora and it&#8217;s Other Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do flies smell? Not as nice as these flowers I be bound!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Fly on Vitaliana by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4609712492\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4011\/4609712492_dc010e6758.jpg\" alt=\"Fly on Vitaliana\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This rock plant is a prostrate, evergreen perennial. The leaves are small, grey-green in appearance often enhanced by fine hairs. In spring\u00c2\u00a0 the scented, stemless flowers are buttercup-yellow which can smother the plant.<\/p>\n<p>This fly found the scent on the open flowers much to his liking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Naming The Plant<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Androsace vitaliana, may now be the official name although I still call it Vitaliana primulifolia.<\/li>\n<li>Historically it has been placed in various genera, including Androsace, Douglasia, Gregoria and Primula.<\/li>\n<li>The prickly-appearing foliage is certainly reminiscent of a Douglasia, although the flowers are primula-like.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00c2\u00a0 a member of the primula family and was once known as the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Golden Primrose.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Vitaliana primuliflora by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4609108495\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4026\/4609108495_a96d91cf5f.jpg\" alt=\"Vitaliana primuliflora\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Tips and Other Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vitaliana is ideal for troughs, crevice gardens and the rockery.<\/li>\n<li>It is propagated by cutting as seed is hard to obtain from cultivated plants.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ovrghs.ca\/articles\/Plants\/Vitaliana%20primuliflora.htm\">Ottawa<\/a> Valley Rock Garden Society has a good descriptive page on this worthwhile and hardy plant.<\/li>\n<li>In the wild it grows on volcanic scree in the Alps, Pyrenees and Dolomites.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do flies smell? Not as nice as these flowers I be bound! This rock plant is a prostrate, evergreen perennial. The leaves are small, grey-green in appearance often enhanced by fine hairs. In spring\u00c2\u00a0 the scented, stemless flowers are buttercup-yellow which can smother the plant. This fly found the scent on the open flowers much to his liking. Naming The Plant Androsace vitaliana, may now be the official name although I still call it Vitaliana primulifolia. Historically it has&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/alpine-rockery\/vitaliana-primuliflora-and-its-other-names\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alpine-rockery","category-primulas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}