Cyclamen out in June.
What a good time it is to do what is out at the moment, when it is 3deg Celsius out side and what I consider cold.
Cyclamen fatrense heavily perfumed.
My new booklet on Cyclamen in Slovenia from the University Botanical Faculty, Ljubljana, Slovenia, my birthday present with postage and bank fees about $45.00. Its a study carried out by Joze Bavcon on Cyclamen purpurascens in Slovenia. Sparsely overgrown forest floors in Slovenia, are just covered in Cyclamen purpurascens, can you imagine the perfume.
The reason for the booklet is I needed to find out more about Cyclamen fatrense, now considered an important Slovakian endemic. Its distribution area is small, Mt. Velka Fatra and Mt. Starohorske vrchy in deciduous and mixed forests of beech with firs or spruces in limestone soil. In 1971 Halda and Soyak described it as a new species, but Grey-Wilson 1988 believes that it is just a variety of Cyclamen purpurascens, Joze Bavcon agrees with Grey-Wilson. Cyclamen fatrense grows quite well in our acid soil here in the Dandenongs as Christopher Grey-Wilson says it does the same in the United States. The flowers are heavily perfumed and the leaves are a thick dark green, with a maroon back, the flowers can vary from pink to dark pink.
Cyclamen alpinum forma leucanthum white form.
Cyclamen alpinum forma leucanthum pink form.
Cyclamen elegans
Cyclamen coum from the Cyclamen Society seed. Seed collection number CSE 87055T, 1987 in northern Turkey. The leaves have a real sheen to them and the flowers look like crushed tissue paper.
If you are lucky enough to have a copy of the Genus Cyclamen published by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew it is on page 227.
Two beautiful Cyclamen silver leafed coums out at the moment from Marg T.
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