Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Cyclamen hederifolium ssp crassifolium

A not very good picture of Cyclamen hederifolium ssp crassifolium a "new" subspecies that originally came to me as C. hederifolium ssp confusum (now C. confusum). From memory there has been for some time talk that the C. hederifolium of Crete and southern Greece were different and in some ways were more similar to C.africanum. It now seems those populations are split into C. hederifolium hederifolium, ssp crassifolium and C.confusum.

I got this as seed in 1991 from the Cyclamen Society labelled confusum Fotio, Peloponnese. The flowers don't look much different (I must see if they are scented) but the leaves seem a little different from the "usual" hederifolium.