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The production of florist's cyclamen is described in Grey-Wilson's Cyclamen (1st edn. 1997). They are grown from seed under highly controlled conditions & the process is automated - effectively industrialised. Flowering sized plants are produced in 8-9 months & the output from a large nursery can be up to 1 million plants per year. Grey-Wilson describes micropropagation (in 1997) as "unreliable.... & expensive" & implies that it is not employed. Of course things may have changed.