Cyclamen repandum

Cyclamen repandum Sm. is species the Mediterranean, which meets since the south of the France (Provence, where it is introduced), while passing by the Italy, the Corsica and the Sardinia, until in the north of ex-Yugoslavia, the Albania and the island of Corfou. In Algérie one meets locally the variety baborense Debussche & Quézel.

Cyclamen repandum is a plant of underwood which flowers with the Printemps (April-May). Its dyed with carmine flowers, very seldom white (F. album ), at darker base is odorous. They have hurled petals, whose end is elegantly circumvented. The sheets broad and often are marbled, with a strongly toothed or lobed edge, and somewhat resemble those of ivy.

Related species

Cyclamen peloponnesiacum (Grey-Wilson) Tan Kit replaces Cyclamen repandum in the south of the Greece. Cyclamen peloponnesiacum has pink flowers with dyed with carmine; F. albiflorum has white flowers. The sheets broader and less lobed than those of Cyclamen repandum , are often mottled. In the East of the Peloponnese one finds the subsp. vividum (Grey-Wilson) Tan Kit with flowers sharp magenta. In Rhodos and locally in the island of Cos, one meets the subsp. rhodense (Meikle) Tan Kit with more lobed sheets and white flowers or pale pink at purple base.
Cyclamen balearicum Willk. of more modest size, with sometimes veined white flowers of pink and with sheets green grisâtre, endemic of the Balearic Islands, also meets in stations isolated in the south from France (Languedoc and Roussillon).
Cyclamen creticum (Dörfl.) Hildebr. with larger white flowers or dew, meets in Crete and in Karpathos.

Culture

Cyclamen repandum fears the strong frosts. When it is cultivated in open ground, it must be planted in a place protected from the cold winds and in semi-shaded situation. The sheets, very thin, fear the intense sun, which hardens them. Its tubers should be planted more deeply than those of the other species.

The related species are frost susceptible and must, except in the areas with the lenient climate like the South of England or the West of France, being cultivated in cold greenhouse.

Where Cyclamen repandum and the related species are cultivated together, of the hybrids can appear. One knows thus the hybrids Cyclamen creticum X Cyclamen balearicum , Cyclamen X meiklei Grey-Wilson ( Cyclamen creticum X Cyclamen repandum ) and Cyclamen X saundersii Grey-Wilson ( Cyclamen repandum X Cyclamen balearicum ).

A recent study showed that certain populations of Corsica would be in fact of the hybrids Cyclamen repandum X Cyclamen balearicum ; what is at the very least surprising, because Cyclamen balearicum does not exist in Corsica, but well to 500 km from there, in the south of France or in the Balearic Islands…

External bonds

John D. Thompson, Sebastien Lavergne, Laurence Affre, Myriam Gaudeul & max Debussche, Ecological differentiation off Mediterranean endemic seedlings

Cyclamen repandum

Cyclamen balearicum

Cyclamen creticum

Cyclamen peloponnesiacum

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