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Accession Data:

Cyclamen graecum Link

  • subg. Cyclamen sect. Graecum

  • Common Name:
  • Family: Primulaceae Vent.

  • Country of Origin: s. Greece, Aegean Islands, s. Asia Minor

  • Description: [syn. Cyclamen pseudograecum Hildebrand]

    Tuber to 4 inches in diameter, globose to subglobose, with corky surface; rooting from lower surface; leaf blades cordate, rarely somehat angled, to 5.5 inches long, dark green, with gray-green marbling above, dark violet-purple or pale gray-green beneath, margins dentate, slightly cartilaginous; flowers about 1 inch long, corolla lobes oblong-ovate), and broadly tapering to each end; wider than oblanceolate.">obovate, pale pink with magenta streaks toward the base, eared at base.
    Autumn to early winter

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 199300443
  • Source: RHS - Seed
  • Accession Date: 03-10-1992
  • Bench: 2101 - MED:Mediterranean A
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 2 confirmed on 01-02-2025
  • Restrictions:
    • CITES Appendix II Listed Plant

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: asterids
  • Order: Ericales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Primulaceae
  • SubFamily: Myrsinoideae
  • Tribe:
  • SubTribe:

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
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2025
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References (internal):

  • EEB 3271 - Systematic Botany
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Greece / Cyprus / Turkey

References (external):

  1. Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976
  2. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Monday, September 25, 2017.
  3. Cyclamen graecum at ARS-GRIN. Last accessed on Monday, September 25, 2017.

data regenerated on Thu, 02 Jan 2025 08:39:02 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

Images:

Cyclamen graecum

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Current Accessions in the Primulaceae

Subfamily Maesoideae

  • Maesa lanceolata

Subfamily Myrsinoideae

  • Ardisia japonica
  • Cyclamen cyprium
  • Cyclamen graecum
  • Lysimachia nummularia aurea
  • Myrsine africana
W/C = Wild Collected
= indicates flowering in past 14 days
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= accession added within past 90 days
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