Species · genus Primulina · Gesneriaceae

Primulina tabacum

Primulina tabacum Hance

Reference · P. tabacum

Cultivars of P. tabacum

The named forms growers keep — each with its own page, each honest about how much we know.

No named cultivars catalogued under P. tabacum yet. When growers document a stable, named form, it earns its own page here.

Guide

The species-level account. Cultivar pages build on this and say where they differ.

Primulina tabacum is a member of the Gesneriaceae, the family of gesneriads that grow as small herbaceous plants, often clinging to shaded, humid rock faces and forest understories. Give it bright indirect light out of direct sun, and let the top inch of mix approach dry before watering again, roughly every 7 to 12 days; its soft foliage and crown resent sitting wet. Native range and precise habit are unverified here, so err toward slightly drier and increase humidity only if the leaves show they want it.

Care recipe

The species record — the baseline every cultivar inherits unless it says otherwise.

Care notes are early — not yet verified
Light
ai:claude-opus-4-8
Water
ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 7-12d)
Humidity
ai:claude-opus-4-8
Light

Bright, indirect

Water

≈ every 12 days

Humidity

Medium

Temperature

Not documented

Soil mix

Not documented

Propagation

Not documented

Fertilizing

Not documented

Growth rate

Not documented

Flowering

Not documented

ToxicityAuthoritative · species

Not yet documented

This is where toxicity lives — every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.

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Sources: ai:claude-opus-4-8 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 7-12d)

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