Cyclamen 2012

[daveyp1970]

Hello Davey, no its not rare for C.hederifolium to have a perfume, when the Cyclamen Society undertook field studies in Corfu and Zakinthos it was found that practically all of the plants were perfumed. What I have found to be more unusual is to find a good fragrant plant of C.hederifolium album. Pleased that you have plants that are perfumed because its a great additional attribute, especially if you are able to bring them indoors to appreciate it.

Thank you Melvyn.

[Mark Griffiths]

lovely pics, Diane, thanks for sharing. That intaminatum is stunning.

[Gerry Webster]

Cyclamen graecum subsp. anatolicum

From Rhodes

[Gerry Webster]

Cyclamen graecum album

[David Nicholson]

You certainly grow a good graecum Gerry.

[Gerry Webster]

Thanks David - by & large I leave them to their own devices. Plunged clay pots with the plunge kept just moist during the summer, no repotting & one feed per year (when I remember).

[krisderaeymaeker]

Beautiful Gerry .Here a form with very large and twisted flowers . Even the silver leaves are there ........From seed collected on Rodopou. 

[Hans A.]

Superb graecum album from Hans 

Thanks Diane and Luc!

Some great plants here!

Kris, the twisted flowers are fascinating, doubt I have ever seen this in C. graecum. Is it ex 'Rhodopou' or ex Rhodopou?

As there are different strains of Cyclamen species around (and offered in seedexchanges), is there any source where plants could be checked if they are true to type ?
If not, perhaps we could build up a database here in this forum similar this Hubi made for Crocus cultivars.

[Tony Willis]

Kris

here is one of my plants from Rhodopou. I ave several and they have long elegant flowers but mine are not twisted and they all have fairly standard leaves

[Tony Willis]

Some different forms of Cyclamen mirable.

The first has large squat flowers,the second is fairly typical and the third and almost white one.The last picture is a seedling from the white plant which has turned out to be pink.

[I.S.]

  Tony,
 Very nice mirabile forms! I have only few Cyclamen in my collection. They just start to flower here too.

 C. graecum anatolicum
 C. hederifolium
 C. mirabile

[daveyp1970]

Some different forms of Cyclamen mirable.

The first has large squat flowers,the second is fairly typical and the third and almost white one.The last picture is a seedling from the white plant which has turned out to be pink.

Beautiful plants Tony.

[krisderaeymaeker]

Kris, the twisted flowers are fascinating, doubt I have ever seen this in C. graecum. Is it ex 'Rhodopou' or ex Rhodopou?

Kris
here is one of my plants from Rhodopou. I ave several and they have long elegant flowers but mine are not twisted and they all have fairly standard leaves
As there are different strains of Cyclamen species around (and offered in seedexchanges), is there any source where plants could be checked if they are true to type ?
If not, perhaps we could build up a database here in this forum similar this Hubi made for Crocus cultivars.

Hallo Hans and Tony ,
I bought this plant few years ago as a young seedling at Peter Moore's nursery . On the label was written : ex Rhodopou ...
I was several times in Crete myself and on one of this occasions I collected seeds myself . In the seedbatch I can see many variatons !
Rhodopou is for me one of the locations with the most variation on leafs . Last time I was there in december 2012 and it was stunning to see al those variations .
I remember that I did see such twisted flowers  in the wild to . Not many times but tough more then one time.  And as I remembered wel (could check with my pictures ) , this was also on the Rhodopou penninsula ! I am almost certain that this forms grow on the penninsula.

Anyway I like this twisted flowers very much ! Good idea Tony , such database could help us !

[John Aipassa]

hederifolium darkest purple in the garden.

[Melvyn Jope]

Kris I think you are right about the amount of variation in Cyclamen graecum ssp graecum growing on the Rhodopou peninsular, variation in leaf and flower. When I first visited the peninsular in 1990 I was amazed to see so many 'silver' leafed plants and on subsequent visits saw one or two plants with pure white flowers. The other Cretan form , ssp candicum is not present there, or perhaps I should say if it is there I couldnt find it.