Cyclamen 2014

[johnralphcarpenter]

Hi Emma I heard your boss is Michael Tarzan heseltine is that right?

The same Michael Heseltine who that snob the late Alan Clark referred to as "a man who bought all his own furniture"!

[Roma]

Cyclamen persicum
Cyclamen rhodium ssp. peloponnesiacum
Cyclamen rhodium ssp. vividum

[SJW]

Cyclaman rhodium ssp. peloponnesiacum. Seed grown from 'Pelops'

Interested to see the plain leaf on your plant, David. While the subspecies generally has speckled leaves, plain forms presumably also exist in natural populations. Here's one grown from CSE seed. All the seedlings had speckled leaves apart from this one. It also has darker flowers than usual for Cyclaman rhodium ssp. peloponnesiacum although, once again, I assume that darker forms do exist. Alternatively, of course, it's a hybrid!

[SJW]

Here's two Cyclaman rhodium ssp. peloponnesiacum from the same sowing as the one above.

[SJW]

Roma, that's a decent colour on your vividum. I only have one flowering plant which I have labelled as vividum although the flower colour isn't as strong as the best forms. I also thought vividum had red undersides to the leaves but mine is green. Natural variation again? I think there is a 'transition zone' between Cyclaman rhodium ssp. peloponnesiacum and Cyclaman rhodium ssp. vividum where presumably you get intermediate forms.

[johnstephen29]

Hi Steve I really like your peloponnesiacum  plants

[SJW]

Hi Steve I really like your peloponnesiacum  plants

Thanks, John.

[johnstephen29]

No problem mate

[fermi de Sousa]

The white Cyclamen graecum has survived the incursion of Errol the Echidna! He had dug through this area and I was worried he'd destroyed the corm, but I found the first flowers this weekend, thank goodness!
cheers
fermi

[Chris Johnson]

The white Cyclamen graecum has survived the incursion of Errol the Echidna!

Echidnas and cyclamens are probably not the best combination.

[Anthony Darby]

On "Flowering now Southern Hemisphere" Maggi commented on how shiny the leaves on this Cyclamen hederifolium grown from Zakynthos seed are. There are two or three seedlings in this pot.

[goofy]

hello friends,
this nice plant is just flowering in the garden here.

Cyclamen repandum var. albiflora


enjoy

[Tony Willis]

A couple of mine

Cyclamen persicum from Cyprus

Cyclamen rhodium ssp peloponnesiacum

[Mark Griffiths]

I think generally seedlings resemble their parents - here's a case where that is not so.

First up the original C. persicum var autumnale from Peter Moore, bought as a tuber. Then a set of seedlings showing different flower shape and a huge variation in colour. The leaves however are similar and all seem to have a strong constitution.

[ian mcenery]

 

I think generally seedlings resemble their parents - here's a case where that is not so.

First up the original C. persicum var autumnale from Peter Moore, bought as a tuber. Then a set of seedlings showing different flower shape and a huge variation in colour. The leaves however are similar and all seem to have a strong constitution.

Mark that's the fun. My persicum autumnale from PM seed is the same colour as your last one.

Here we are coming to a peak. The picture below  shows some of the plants flowering at present. There are in variety persicums, pseudibericums, repandums pink and album, rhodium peloponnesiacums and vividum