Plant inventory; plant material introduced

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Primula chionantha sinopurpurea syn. P. sinopurpurea Identifier: plantinventorypl7190agri (find matches)
Title: Plant inventory; plant material introduced
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Agricultural Research Center-West (U.S.). Northeastern Region Agricultural Research Center (Beltsville, Md.) United States. Agricultural Research Service. Horticultural Crops Research Branch
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Publisher: Washington, D.C., United States Department of Agriculture
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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e the Snow Range, at an altitude of 10,500 feet.It bears perfectly round fruits an inch in diameter, lemon yellow, opaque,with firm sour flesh which is somewhat sweet when absolutely mature.The tree is very healthy and an abundant fruiter and should make agood stock plant where hardiness is des red. The locality where it wascollected is subject to drought from October to June, when the hea$ isintense, and snow falls in the winter. For an illustration of this Asiatic plum, see Plate II. 55902. Rtbes glaciale Wall. Grossulariacese. (August 21, 1922.) A shrub 15 feet h?gh, growing in alpine meadowsat an altitude of 12,000 to 15,000 feet on the Likiang Snow Range. Theflowers, which vary from cream colored to red, and the red oval berriesmake this shrub decidedly ornamental. 55903. Rubus sp. Rosacea?. Raspberry. (No. 5834. August 16, 1922.) A raspberry with large rich-greenleaflets, collected on the Likiang Snow Range at an altitude of 11,000 Inventory 73, Seeds and Plants Imported Plate I
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A Handsome Chinese Primrose (Primula sinopurpurea Balf. f.; S. P. I. No. 55899) Because of its vigor and free-flowering habit in the high mountains of western China, whereit is native, this primrose seems likely to be more satisfactory in cultivation than other mem-bers of the nivalis section of the genus, to which this species belongs. It was found byJ. F. Rock in boggy meadows on the Likiang Snow Range in northern Yunnan at an alti-tude of 12,000 feet. The plant grows to a height of about 3 feet, and the flower stalks andlower surfaces of the thick dark-green leaves are covered with golden meal. In May therich rosy purple, fragrant flowers, each about an inch in diameter, are produced in clustersof 6 to 12 or more. (Photographed by J. F. Rock, Yunnan, China, May, 1922; P30216FS) inventory 73, Seeds and Plants Imported Plate II

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