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Author Topic: Cyclamen ID, please  (Read 1003 times)

Ray

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Cyclamen ID, please
« on: March 28, 2009, 10:18:18 AM »
Any chance of getting a ID of these cyclamen,,if you need leaves to help in your ID sorry they don't have any at the moment.Picture quality not to good but see how you go thanks Ray
« Last Edit: March 30, 2009, 06:06:58 PM by Maggi Young »
Ray Evans
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Paul T

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Re: Cyclamen
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2009, 10:52:01 AM »
Ray,

Those flowers and no leaves would almost certainly mean that they're Cyclamen hederifolium.  If you can post a pic of the leaves when they emerge we should be able to tell you for sure.  The timing and absence of leaves is right for hederifolium.
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Melvyn Jope

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Re: Cyclamen
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2009, 05:42:49 PM »
Hello Ray, I agree with Paul, they are almost certainly all Cycamen hederifolium.

Rodger Whitlock

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Re: Cyclamen ID, please
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2009, 11:13:47 PM »
Yes, unquestionably C. hederifolium. At first I thought "what is it doing flowering at this time of year?" but then I remembered the reversal of seasons between the two hemispheres!

It's the most common, easiest, and perhaps most rewarding of cyclamen species. Seed will ripen in early summer (December, ozzie time) and if collected then and sown, you can soon have your garden full of it. Or you can leave the seed to the ants to carry around and plant in unexpectedly artistic sites.

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