Cyclamen intaminatum

Here are some Cyclamen intaminatum. The "pinkish" one turned up I think in the greenhouse sand plunge and was always a mystery because apart from the fairly reliable plain leaves white one the only other plants I had were tiny patterend leaved white ones that never did much - so where this vigourous pinking, pattern leaved one came from I didn't know. Curiously this year I found it had produced a seedling, again in the plunge.

The white ones are the "common" unpatterned leaf form. I put some seedlings out in a trough which has a 39 yo Daphne arbuscula in it.

x Rhodoxis correction

I'm indebited to Jaap Duijs for the correction to this post

http://inspiringplants.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/rhodohypoxis-tangles.html

"In 2011 this x Rhodoxis was named 'Sonja'.
When plants are sold for several years it causes confusion if someone starts to sell plants with fancy new names.
Agefotostock has made pictures of plants of mine and is selling these pictures without my permission.  These pictures are sold to nurseries with fancy names given by Walterblom who is propagating several x Rhodoxis without my permission.

name of x Rhodoxis                                                 fancy name

Hebron Farm Red Eye                                       Summer Stars Peppermint
Aya San                                                                  ,,               Candy
Bloodstone                                                             ,,               Ruby
Jenny  (Otterlo 888)                                               ,,               Pink Blush  or Ruby
Sonja  (Otterlo 860)                                               ,,               Pinkey  

Kind Regards,
                       Jaap Duijs."

A couple of dubious Cyclamen

Over the decades I've grown a number of Cyclamen from various seed sources and inevitably some aren't what they are supposed to be. Some are easy to spot. The pink C. purpurascens that was supposed to be purpurascens album, a hederifolium appearing within a pot of C. cyprium seedlings. Others are a bit harder to tell. Suspicious looking C. rhodense, C.creticum that are probably purer white forms of C. balearicum and so on.

The two above are examples of the ones that are harder to prove. The first is supposed to be Cyclamen africanum album. Never heard of a pure white one before - but it came with a name of someone that would in theory know. The other is supposed to be Cyclamen africanum x hederifolium. Given C.africanum is harder in some forms to tell from some forms of hederifolium how do you know when it's the hybrid?

Anyway, I keep them on in the greenhouse as curiousities.