Cyclamen 2015

[Mark Griffiths]

thanks Melvyn, I tended to take the view that the only ones I knew with certainty were the CSE and other wild collections. Unfortunately the CSE ones I had are not doing so well.

[Philip Walker]

I think this is C.repandum unless anyone can put me right.I lost the label when I dropped it last year.

[Roma]

Last Cyclamen pseudibericum to flower
Interesting leaves
A Cyclamen purpurascens with purple on the leaves
Cyclamen persicum from Cyclamen Society seed from plant collected in Israel

[Roma]

Cyclamen rhodium ssp. peloponnesiacum and C. repandum
Cyclamen rhodium ssp. vividum

[Mark Griffiths]

@ Phillip

I think you have a nice Cyclamen rhodium ssp. peloponnesiacum rather than repandum.

[Philip Walker]

Thanks mark.The other one would be easier for me to spell.

[Mark Griffiths]

in a whisper...I copied and pasted it from Roma's reply..

nice plants Roma.

[Roma]

nice plants Roma.

Thanks Mark.

I've written peloponnesiacum so often I can now do it without checking the spelling

[Mark Griffiths]

I'd be interested in opinions. If I didn't know it's origins I'd probably go for Cyclamen rhodium ssp. peloponnesiacum var albiflorum as it's a big white flower - but the leaves look more like repandum.

It turned up in the plunge and as I had no albiflorum or repandum album then it's unlikely to be one of those. I'm wondering if it is a cross between C. creticum x repandum (which had some repandum leaves and some almost creticum flowers and Cyclamen rhodium ssp. peloponnesiacum.

 

[SJW]

I'd be interested in opinions. If I didn't know it's origins I'd probably go for Cyclamen rhodium ssp. peloponnesiacum var albiflorum as it's a big white flower - but the leaves look more like repandum.

It turned up in the plunge and as I had no albiflorum or repandum album then it's unlikely to be one of those. I'm wondering if it is a cross between C. creticum x repandum (which had some repandum leaves and some almost creticum flowers and Cyclamen rhodium ssp. peloponnesiacum.

Mark - have you discounted any balearicum in its genes? The flower has a look of balearicum about it?

[Mark Griffiths]

yes, good point - you can see some lines in the flower. Thinking about it I did have one plant that suddenly turned up that looked a bit like this one but much smaller. I'm hoping for seed - it's a nice vigourous plant and again hopefully I might be able to send some to the Cyclamen society - it will have to go as unknown hybrid which probably means it will go as a freebie to some people.

[Anthony Darby]

My seedlings are progressing. Cyclamen mirabile (two different plants); C. cyprium; C. persicum from Rhodes and C. persicum from Jordan.

[johnstephen29]

Great leaves on your mirabile Anthony.

[Anthony Darby]

Great leaves on your mirabile Anthony.

I'll see how long they take to fade. One is in shade, the other in full sun.

[Matt T]

Someone told me that the pink colouration is due to minute hairs that eventually drop off. I don't remember who but I don't think I was being wound up In which case, exposure to light might not have an effect but rain might?