Cyclamen 2008

[Maggi Young]

I love to see these cyclamen in quantity... so sumptuous ....en masse and yet all different.
The coum with the fabulous leaf pattern and the white flowered version below it are just amazing.....serious coveting going on here!

[Paul T]

Tim,

Positively glorious!!  What a display.  That alpinum is stunning, and the silver leaf that isn't in flower.... what perfect leaves to it (although why no flowers?)

Middle of summer here, yet things are confused and some of my coums are already sending up leaves while the hederifoliums are just coming into full flower.  Very strange, but still kind of nice to see those lovely coum leaves.

[David Nicholson]

What a fantastis display Tim.

[snowdropman]

Lesley - thanks for posting your cyclamen persicum - for some reason, this form seems much maligned, but I think that this is undeserved as they always provide such good colour and just keep on flowering and flowering and.......

[David Lyttle]

This is a plant that I grew from seed as Cyclamen africanum. It grows quite happily for me outside with no special treatment so much so that the corm is now splitting the pot.

Picture 1 is of the complete pot with an onion orchid (Microtis unifolia) growing as a weed in the pot.
Picture 2 is a close up of the flower
Picture 3 is a seedling of the orginal plant. The flower is a lighter shade of pink than the parent.

[Hans A.]

A beautyful Cyclamen balearicum in its natural habitat.

[Katherine J]

A beautyful Cyclamen balearicum in its natural habitat.

In a crevice! How lovely!

[Hans A.]

This Cyclamen is flowering now - it should not. - nevertheless it is nice to see it

[Diane Clement]

This Cyclamen is flowering now - it should not. - nevertheless it is nice to see it

Hans, this is not C graecum, it's C persicum, so the flowering time is fine.
C graecum has flowers with auricules (similar flower shape to C hederifolium)

[Hans A.]

Thanks Diane,
just this I studied in the moment - I received this plant last year as C. graecum, now having the pic on the screen it is sure you are right - always better to look twice

[Gerhard Raschun]

I have got a plant aprox. 10 years ago from Crete.Now it is in flower again.I`m not a specialist in this genus, please help to ID this plant ! Could it be Cycl. creticum ?

[Tim Murphy]

Definitely Cyclamen creticum, Gerhard.

[Gerhard Raschun]

@ Tim:

Many thanks for your ID, I have seen some picts on the net.I believe that Cycl. repandum ssp. creticum is a synonym of Cycl. creticum ?

[Anthony Darby]

Here's a nice one. Cyclamen rhodium ssp. peleponesium (if I can read the label?).

[Gerdk]

@ Tim:
Many thanks for your ID, I have seen some picts on the net.I believe that Cycl. repandum ssp. creticum is a synonym of Cycl. creticum ?

Yes, it is. Repandum and its subspecies and creticum are very closely related.

Gerd