Cyclamen 2010

[Hans J]

Hi Cyclamenfriends ,

I have just postet my new offer with seeds of Cyclamen here :

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4311.msg159294#msg159294

Regards
Hans

[johnw]

This crazy Cyclamen purpurascens seedling is putting out its Mickey Mouse ears again this year.

johnw

[Lesley Cox]

And I thought I'd never want to go to Disneyland Is it that colour John or is it a lighting thing?

[Paul T]

John,

That would be fascinating if it stabilised that way.  Looks like that tiny seedling behind it has nice colour to the leaves as well.

[johnw]

And I thought I'd never want to go to Disneyland Is it that colour John or is it a lighting thing?

Lesley - This seed lot gave some very interesting seedlings.  The colour is indeed pure silver on this seedling but there is a bare percetible green edge, others that are pure silver seem to have noticeable edges of green.

johnw

[Herminarik]

Hello cyclamenphiles (?),

It seems that Cyclamen purpurascens open new season of second half year flowering Cyclamens (or at least here in south Moravia). The wild populations of Cyclamen purpurascens seams maybe quite uninterested to be, but if you have good eyes, a lot of time and the patience, you can find quite a lot of the plants interesting by leaves (or flowers). In the former Czechoslovakia were two forms of C. purpurascens described: C. purpurascens and C. fatrense. The locality of C. purpurascens we visited last year, but on the locus classicus of C. fatrense I was cca 20 years ago. The main difference between two these forms are in the leaves – C. purpurascens have leaves with the drawing while C. purpurascens (all population) has only plain dark green leaves without any drawing (that says the literature). But in fact it is a little bit complicated – in the southern (and warm) part of Moravia we found three plants with the leaves similar to C. purpurascens (see here below). Actually we have no pictures of true C. fatrense for comparison, but it will be change as we plan a short trip in the mountains of northern Slovakia for C. fatrense at the beginning of August.
The fird meber of this group – Cyclamen colchicum is quite distinguishable from these others,… , but in fact you till the moment you receive the C. colchicum with the plain leaves….
Cheers Igor and Pavlina

[Herminarik]

Cyclamen colchicum and the other diff. leaves forms of C. purpurascens.

[Herminarik]

C. purpurascens with silver leaves...

[Herminarik]

C. purpurascens - seedlings with different drawings and margins...

[Herminarik]

C. purpurascens with plain leaves...

[Herminarik]

C. purpurascens with the contrasted leave`s drawing and the diff. forms of leaves

[Herminarik]

and at the end - some seedlinds - C. fatrense, C. colchicum plain leaves and C. purpurascens plain leaves...

[bulborum]

Hello Herminarik

very nice collection
Do you have a trick for germinating Cyclamen purpurascens

Roland

[krisderaeymaeker]

Very interesting Igor . Some remarkable leafforms too .
Cyclamen purpurascens grows even very well in my sunny and hot rockgarden!
The first  picture is the one from my rockgarden.
Second a darker flowering form .
Third another leafform.

[Lesley Cox]

Some wonderful leaves there, and lovely perfume too.