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In this article on C. graecum, Sandy Leven calls his plant C. graecum album : http://www.srgc.org.uk/monthfeature/nov2004/content.html but I think it is more correctly C. graecum forma album The Cyclamen Society has it so : http://www.cyclamen.org/graecum_set.html as does the PBS :http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/CyclamenSpeciesTwo
Thanks Maggi - I wondered about the name because as I know white Cyclamen graecum are very rare in nature and do not know if there exist population of white flowering plants while those in culture seem to belong all to a true breeding white strain.
Here a few flowering seedlingpots - C.rohlfsianum, I remembered especially C. rohlfsianum as slow growing species so I was suprised to see flowers in this seedling pot, sown in november 2010.
Many thanks Steve. As I noted I have 3 plants obtained as subsp. anatolicum ( 2 from Peter Moore & 1 from Pat Nichols) all supposedly from the same population in Rhodes. They are similar in leaf pattern - though not in colour - but differ markedly in flower shape. Hence my sceptical view of the supposed subspecies. How are they to be distinguished?
Gerry - I had a quick look at the Peter Moore/Melvyn Jope Cyclamen of Greece book for clarification and, to save time writing it out, I've posted a couple of (poor) photos of the relevant pages. Of course, Melvyn is a fellow forumist so I hope he doesn't mind . Any help with ID?
The SRGC is pleased to have very happy relations with the Cyclamen Society -we are delighted that so many of its luminaries are members here Peter Moore/Melvyn Jope Cyclamen of Greece , Publ. Cyclamen Society 2011 you can buy it for only £4.00 : http://www.cyclamen.org/publications.htm (Attachment Link)
.... a photo of my most floriferous tuber of C. rhodium ssp. peleponnesiacum in flower at the moment in my garden . It self sows abundantly as does C. libanoticum and repandum etc.
I am trying hard not to be jealous......