Cyclamen graecum
The flowers appear at the end of the summer with or right before the sheets. Curiously, while the floral stalk of the majority of the species twists in corkscrew starting from the top, Cyclamen graecum the fact starting from the medium of the stalk.
In addition to the standard species with pink flowers at more sunk base, one distinguishes the subspecies anatolicum Ietsw. with more hurled flowers and candicum Ietsw. with sometimes washed white flowers of pink, and with more marked basal auricles. Cyclamen graecum subsp. graecum F. album , originating in the Peloponnese, is with white flowers without basal spot.
The sheets of the Greek cyclamen very variablement and often are very decorated with veinings and cream-coloured, gray or silver plated marblings. The combinations are so numerous that a whole page could be devoted there! `Glyfada' and `Rhodopou' are selections with silver plated sheets.
Cyclamen graecum needs much heat for flowering well. As this species is rather not very rustic, it is advised to plant it in cold greenhouse.
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