Cyclamen 2010

[mark smyth]

My Cyclamen hederifolium shown back in November wasn't hardy. All the leaves are hanging limp

[David Nicholson]

It's sure to perk up as (if!) the weather gets better Mark

[mark smyth]

weather is back to normal here

[David Nicholson]

It's much better here too, no frost in the ground but the pots in the greenhouse are still solid.

[partisangardener]

It usaually takes some days to recover with me. Never failed down to -20

[johnw]

It usaually takes some days to recover with me. Never failed down to -20

It's funny about Cyclamen leaves in cold.  My experience over the years has been that with the first few hard freezes the leaves go limp and look alarmingly black and water-soaked.  After that they return to normal and take much colder temperatures without the blackened soggy look.  They do go limp in the worst cold but never as scarily as in early winter.  Have others noticed the same thing?

Here is a seedling that has cropped up in a batch of Melvyn's hederifolium seed that shows dark pink through the silver. Several of these have appeared in a recent sowing.  Has anyone else seen this?

johnw - +2c and on the rise.

[Paul T]

Very nice, John.  Excellent to see the pink colouration in other than mirabile.  From the leaf shape, I would have thought it as a coum, not a hederifolium.   Shows how much I know.

[annew]

In my (limited) experience, C. hederifolium seedlings descended from "Bowles' Apollo' often show some pink in the new leaves like mirabile does.

[bulborum]

Yes annew
You are right
it seems one year more as the other
This year mine are very pale
do have the others the same experience

Roland

[Tony Willis]

this is a Cyclamen graecum ssp anatolicum sown in 1996 which has produced these yellowish leaves every year from one of its crowns. They look a bit tatty at the moment because it has been kept very cold over the last few weeks. It never varies and I suppose I should cut it of as it does not add anything to the attractiveness of the plant.

[Regelian]

I don't know, Tony.  I think I would pot up this corm seperately and see how it developes.  Could be interesting!

Jamie

[Tony Willis]

Jamie

it is one growth of many on a large corm.I would have to take it as a cutting. Maybe in the spring.

[Regelian]

OK, I see the problem.  Still, I would try it in the Spring.  Alone in a pot, it may be quite attractive.  As it is, I find it interesting.  There may be some recessive genes in there for new breeding directions.   Then again, it may just be a less than healthy part of the corm!  Think positive.  It will be a huge seller at Wisley.
Jamie

[Lesley Cox]

I too have had pink suffusion on seedlings from Bowles' Apollo but it fades away by the second year of true leaves. I'd forgotten about it because they have been very dry in recent years and haven't set seed. The above posts sent me out to rescue and repot them, while still more or less dormant.

[Melvyn Jope]

Here is a seedling that has cropped up in a batch of Melvyn's hederifolium seed that shows dark pink through the silver. Several of these have appeared in a recent sowing.  Has anyone else seen this?

John, I agree with the comments made by Anne about Bowles Apollo showing pink in new and mature leaves however I have not grown Bowles Apollo for a few years so the seed I sent you would not have been from that selection. What is much more likely is that it is seed from one of the plants in my collection which originated from Leonidi in the Peloponnese which were selected for the striking pink markings on mature leaves. We have also observed that some seedlings of C.confusum have a distinct bronze appearance, unfortunately in that species it does not last. I do think that you should keep an eye on your 'pink' C.hederifolium seedlings until the first mature leaf in case you have something special, I do hope so.