Primula sinensis

Primula sinensis
	Primula sinensis, a hand-coloured engraving from John Lindley's Collectanea botanica (1821) of a plant both named and drawn by Lindley
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Ericales
Family:	Primulaceae
Genus:	Primula
Species:	P. sinensis
Binomial name
	Primula sinensis; Sabine ex Lindley, Coll. Bot. t. 7. 1821. non Loureiro (1790).
Synonyms
	Auganthus praenitens Link; Oscaria chinensis Lilja; Primula mandarina Hoffmannsegg; P. praenitens Ker Gawler; P. semperflorens Loiseleur-Deslongchamps ex Steudel; P. sertulosa Kickx f.; Primulidium sinense (Sabine ex Lindley) Spach.

Primula sinensis, (Chinese: 藏报春; pinyin: zàngbàochūn) or the Chinese primrose, is a plant species in the genus Primula.

Primulin is an anthocyanin found in P. sinensis.^[2]

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