Cyclamen 2009

[Paul T]

Dominique,

I love that hed leaf.... interesting with the central silver surrounded by such broad green.  As a mature plant that will look splendid.

Guff,

Brilliant colour to those dark ones.  Not even close to that sort of colour here.  Nice!

[Gerdk]

Guff,
Brilliant colour to those dark ones.  Not even close to that sort of colour here.  Nice!

Guff,
According the pic you finally obtained a very good dark Cyclamen hederifolium!

Gerd

[Maggi Young]

your dark hederifolium looks lovely in the sunlight, Guff.

[johnw]

My ancient Cyclamen africanum is still going strong.

johnw

[Melvyn Jope]

I found this nice Cyclamen hederifolium in a garden centre last week. The dark flowers and silvery leaves has been a combination that I had hoped to achieve by crossing some of my plants but someone has beaten me to it....

[Oron Peri]

Oron, I can see why you describe the C. rohlfsianum as 'special', it is a superb flower colour and shape. A nice lot of buds coming on the plants too. Are you able to keep them in the open all year round?

Melvyn
Yes, the species I have shown above are growing out in the garden all year round.
Species native to North Africa and the lower altitudes around the Mediterranean do well here.
Amazingly i grow out also C. purpurascens, coum caucasicum and lately even C. elegans.
It seems that species that grow in difficult habitats manage to adapt better to our hot and dry weather.

That is a great  hederifolium, nice contrast of leaves and flower.
By the way i hardly ever get the flowers and leaves at the same time, so i put a label that indicates leaf color or pattern in order to know if a plants has good flower color as well as nice leaves.

 

[Oron Peri]

Thanks Hans.
I will post a photo when it is in full bloom,
hopfully the rain we had last week wont make them grow leaves at the same time.

[BULBISSIME]

Fantastic pics and plants Oron.
Never heard before from C. persicum var autumnale
Where does it come from ??
And C. confusum ??
Anyway, great collection, congratulations !

[Tony Willis]

Cyclamen cyprium in flower which has a wonderful scent and a Cyclamen hederifolium with an unusal leaf marking flowering for the first time

[Joakim B]

Nice photos and plants.
I bought some plants in Hungary and wonder if They are as stated C hederifolium.
I got 3 bulbs and one with 2 flowers none had roots but I hope they will do well and get them later.
I also show a picture taken with flash and hence slightly wrong colour of a plant growing in my garden in Hungary. It was identified on bad pictures last year as C purpurascens but with a better photo it might be a safer confirmation.
Can anyone confirm the names?
Kind regards
Joakim

[Melvyn Jope]

Joakim, the identification is correct. The picture on the package is also showing the correct content, sadly not always the case,and the growth on the tubers shows it is that of Cyclamen hederifolium. The last photo is of Cyclamen purpurascens so was correctly identified before.

[art600]

Fantastic pics and plants Oron.
Never heard before from C. persicum var autumnale
Where does it come from ??
And C. confusum ??
Anyway, great collection, congratulations !

Fred
You need to join the Cyclamen Society and then you can be really Confusumed    Our latest Journal introduces further names and some plants labelled Confusum will require a new name.  I am totally confused myself, even though the Journal articles are well researched.

[Joakim B]

Thanks or the help with identification Melvyn.
I have still not got the feeling/ knowledge to separate the different species.
I will try to find a good Cyclamen book/website where it is described well.
Does anyone have any suggestions of books websites?
Kind regards
Joakim

[Michael J Campbell]

Cyclamen by Christopher Grey- Wilson. Barnes & Noble

http://www.tilebarn-cyclamen.co.uk/

http://www.cyclamen.org/indexCS.html

[BULBISSIME]

Thank's Arthur !!
I have some litterature but species appears, disappears, reappears, ....sometimes, I HATE botanists