Cyclamen 2017

[Melvyn Jope]

Two of the Cyclamen in flower today, Cyclamen elegans and Cyclamen coum Russian Form

[Yann]

the last one is very smart, does this form always bloom so late?.

[Melvyn Jope]

This is an early flower for the C.coum Russian form, most flowers will come in February/March.

[Gerdk]

These flowers were picked from Cyclamen persicum Mt. Carmel -
 a plant which is now 18 years old!

Gerd

[David Nicholson]

Cyclamen alpinum from seed

[Roma]

Three pictures of Cyclamen coum.  The third one was from seed meant to be Cyclamen coum 'Lake Effect' which is an albissimum form
Cyclamen pseudibericum
Cyclamen x wellensiekii (cyprium x libanoticum)

[johnw]

Cyclamen kuznetzovii from 2010 Cyclamen Society seed thanks to Arthur N.  Plenty of buds are active already as usual.  I try to keep this, my oldest plant isolated so the seed is true.  Pity it is not as hardy as first suggested, Dima kindly confirmed that back in 2008.


john
+1c & sunny

[Graeme]

Cyclamen kuznetzovii from 2010 Cyclamen Society seed thanks to Arthur N.  Plenty of buds are active already as usual.  I try to keep this, my oldest plant isolated so the seed is true.  Pity it is not as hardy as first suggested, Dima kindly confirmed that back in 2008.

John - is that the normal leaf form for that plant - as I have a few with that pattern - can you post a picture of the flower in due course?

[johnw]

Yes that is typical of the ones we grew, the leaf a tad dowdy.


Code was CS08-22, got 30 seeds and 22 sprouted.  Ken tells me he just had a few sprout from a December 2015 sowing of our selfed seed.


Here are pix of previous flowerings.


john

[SJW]

Yes that is typical of the ones we grew, the leaf is a tad dowdy.
Code was CS08-22
john

I expect there's a variety of leaf forms of kuznetsovii in cultivation but my understanding is that the form offered at one time by Tilebarn Nursery had plain green leaves and a good pink flower. There used to be a photo of it on the old Cyclamen Society website but not, as yet, on the new website. Back in 2013 my plant - now deceased - looked like this: http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9948.540

[Bart]

I have a C. coum flowering with leaves that look identical to those kuznetsovii. Raises the question about naming varieties. At some point I did get some seed of kuznetsovii but lost the label. This plant could well be 'it', or a random seedling. Would it be safe and just for me to assume it is kuznetsovii?

First time flowering a silver leaved coum with an intensely deep colour that is hard to capture, I placed it on some dark red apples and yellow pears for contrast. I hope this one will grow well and bulk up!

[Cfred72]

Beautiful varieties of pears and apples, Bart.

[Cfred72]

It's humor of course.  Are your cyclamen from your own seedlings? They are very pretty. 

[Bart]

Haha, but yes, they are nice apples and pears! Colapuy, and Gieser Wildeman respectively. The Cyclamen is from the Cyclamen Society, sown 6/10/2013 and said: C coum patterned leaf, dark purple flower; crossing with 'Meaden's Crimson'. A fairly long wait, which seems to be the case with coum for me. In the garden seedlings seem to take years as well to reach flowering size.

[SJW]

I have a C. coum flowering with leaves that look identical to those kuznetsovii. Raises the question about naming varieties. At some point I did get some seed of kuznetsovii but lost the label. This plant could well be 'it', or a random seedling. Would it be safe and just for me to assume it is kuznetsovii?

There's a couple of other C coum varieties with plain green leaves. 'Meaden's Crimson' has very dark red flowers and 'Golan Heights' has pure white flowers. The latter breeds true but the former often throws plants with marked leaves. I wouldn't label these as 'Meaden's Crimson'.