Cyclamen pseudibericum

Cyclamen pseudibericum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Ericales
Family:	Myrsinaceae
Genus:	Cyclamen
Subgenus:	Gyrophoebe
Series:	Pubipedia
Species:	C. pseudibericum
Binomial name
Cyclamen pseudibericum

Cyclamen pseudibericum (incorrectly spelled pseudoibericum) is a perennial growing from a tuber, native to the Amanus or Nur and Anti-Taurus Mountains in southern Turkey. It is similar to Cyclamen coum, but has longer petals.

Description

The tuber roots from the center below, like Cyclamen coum.

The leaves are longer than wide, with a hastate or Christmas-tree pattern in green and silver.

The flowers bloom in spring. They are fragrant and magenta-purple or pink, with a darker blotch and a white zone at the end of the nose, larger than that of Cyclamen coum.

Seeds are held in a pod on a stem that coils starting at the end.

Subdivisions

Cyclamen pseudibericum f. roseum

Forms

There are two naturally occurring forms, distinguished by predominant flower color. Cyclamen pseudibericum f. pseudibericum is magenta-purple and Cyclamen pseudibericum f. roseum is light pink to nearly white.

Hybrids

Cyclamen ×schwarzii Grey-Wilson is a fertile hybrid Cyclamen pseudibericum × Cyclamen libanoticum. This hybrid can cross back with one of the parents. According to Grey-Wilson some very pale forms of Cyclamen pseudibericum f. roseum could actually be Cyclamen ×schwarzii or back-cross of it.^[1]

References

1. ^ Christopher Grey-Wilson. Cyclamen - A guide for gardeners, horticulturists and botanists, Timber Press, 1997 - ISBN 0-7134-7854-0