Cyclamen 2010

[Michael J Campbell]

Cyclamen balericum.

[Mark Griffiths]

Nice. Any chance you can put up a picture of the leaves?

I have a number of C. creticum that look more like that flower and blunt leaves..but they might be hybrids. Equally I have a number of C.balearicum with pointed leaves. All were from Cyclamen society seed.

I rember having plants that had big blue green, silvery leaves. oddly when i found the plants in the wild the leaves were nothing like as distinctly "balericum"

[Michael J Campbell]

I don't have a pic taken today but here is one from file.

[Mark Griffiths]

thanks. It's not quite the form I used to know, that had very big leaves, but I can still see the blunt toothing and tip. Not sure what I have!

[Michael J Campbell]

I am not quite sure about them as they seem to have hybridized with Creticum and Repandum. I think that most of my plants in that range are now all hybs, some nice plants though.

[Mark Griffiths]

Yes, I think alot of my plants are now mutts too. But as you say, they are often very pretty.

[galahad]

Some of my 2 year seedlings

I am loving the silver leaves in the C. hed. mix

Not sure what the last one is.  Need to check the seed list and relabel

[galahad]

This years SRGC Cyclamen seedlings (or at least half of them) complete with spider webs

[bulborum]

Ross yours look most for Cyclamen coum mixture
and the right bottom one a terrible weed
By the way
are there native bulbs in New Zealand
I never hear anything about bulbs from there
I just heard there is a yellow Crinum in Australia

Roland

[bulborum]

Hello Mark

Here some leaves from Cyclamen balearicum
the first two from Peter Moore
the last two from commercial stock

Roland

[Lesley Cox]

Sadly Roland, there is not one single bulbous plant that is native to New Zealand. Those of us who are severely addicted to bulbs have to sponge off everyone else's natives but thankfully, most grow well here once they have travelled across the oceans or through the skies. Thank goodness so many species and hybrids were introduced by pioneering families or by keen gardeners and nursery owners in former years.

The nearest we have to bulbs are the pseudobulbs of some small, terrestrial orchids such as Thelymitra or Caladenia.

Ross, many of yours will be super plants when they're matured.

Among the two year olds, the last pic looks like a mixed selection of coums including from the Pewter group.

[galahad]

Ross, many of yours will be super plants when they're matured.

Among the two year olds, the last pic looks like a mixed selection of coums including from the Pewter group.

Just looked up the number and it is just listed as C. coum

[Lesley Cox]

Was the seed from AGS or SRGC? That would suggest that all the seed of C. coum from various sources, is lumped together before distributing. If the same applies to your seedlings of C. hederifolium, it would make selecting those for one's application, well worth while in order to get some of those super silver forms. Usually I gloss over those with a sort of mental "yeah yeah," and go on to something more exciting.

[bulborum]

Thanks Lesley
Now I understand why I never heard about bulbs from New Zealand

Ross If you look for particular var. of hederifolium led me know
I have a small collection also silver leaved forms

Roland

[galahad]

Was the seed from AGS or SRGC? That would suggest that all the seed of C. coum from various sources, is lumped together before distributing. If the same applies to your seedlings of C. hederifolium, it would make selecting those for one's application, well worth while in order to get some of those super silver forms. Usually I gloss over those with a sort of mental "yeah yeah," and go on to something more exciting.

Those were from NZAGS