Cyclamen 2010

[Lvandelft]

I presume the pony got the "red card" 
Wish you a good and soon recovery Roma!

[Diane Clement]

I find the bigger, older tubers of C. hederifolium do make roots all over rather than just on top so I suppose if the tuber were sat on top as in the plink images, only where it was covered and received moisture, would it make roots.

Hope you're soon better, Roma.
The younger tubers of hederifolium also tend to have roots on the top and sides, but often nothing at the base.  
I think the clue here is the treatment of C hederifolium as if it were a caudiciform which I don't think it technically is, and growing it that way (as a caudiciform) and surprisingly it is doing well, although it looks strange.  There is something odd about the growth of the tuber, and I wonder whether the tuber has two sections, with the bit above ground as a floral trunk joined to another section of tuber below ground with roots


Root distribution on normally grown C hederifolium

[Lesley Cox]

Mmmmmm just about naked as a baby's bottom.

[Ragged Robin]

Roma, do hope you are more mobile soon and not so restricted by pain - so frustrating when you feel you should be doing something.  My brother had a young highland cow that escaped at a show and butted the judge - no prizes what he said 

[KentGardener]

My hederifolium are starting to flower - this one was looking particularly nice this morning.

[fleurbleue]

VERY  nice John ! 

[David Nicholson]

Very nice John. Wonder where mine have gone!

[Ragged Robin]

My hederifolium are starting to flower - this one was looking particularly nice this morning.

I love the white ones, John, and yours are exceptionally nice 

[WimB]

Sown in December 2009 and now flowering already 

Cyclamen intaminatum

[angie]

My hederifolium are starting to flower - this one was looking particularly nice this morning.

I would agree with you John your Hederifolium is stunning, I do love white flowers.

Roma sorry you can't join us on Saturday  but we will be thinking of you and hopefully someone will have pictures to post on the forum, looks if it's going to be a dry day.

Angie
 
 

[krisderaeymaeker]

I would agree with you John your Hederifolium is stunning, I do love white flowers.

I love the white ones in shade but the darker forms in sunnier spots Angie.
In the meantime the highlight of the season is coming for my Cyclamen hederifolium.
This darker flowering form is an example.

[annew]

Beautiful, Chris.
I have a C hederifolium or two which have self-sown into odd spots where the tuber has remained fully exposed, with no roots apparent on the upper surface. It is probably a kind of air-pruning of the roots.

[Hans A.]

A friend of mine grew all his cyclamen he grew in pots with the corms on the top of the soil (africanum,alpinum, balearicum,cilicicum, coum, creticum, cyprium, graecum, intaminatum, libanoticum,mirabile, parviflorum, persicum,pseudibericum, repandum, rhodense and rohlfsianum). It worked very well, corms were easy to check and plants stayed more compact (much better for an overcrowded greenhouse)

[Tony Willis]

Cyclamen mirable are starting to flower. Three different shades.

[Maggi Young]

Cyclamen mirabile are starting to flower. Three different shades.

 Ian's favourites! How sweet are these little flowers with their miniature perfection ?