Cyclamen

Cyclamen

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Cyclamen in Antalya and nearby

With an emphasis on leaves since often these may be all that are available. It can be very helpful to spot any recently spent flowers or coils (example) so that the leaf stage can be considered against the flowering timing.

This is a good draft

Leaf Features

BEADED EDGES with many blunt thickened teeth often white, also veins quite often very delineated and looped to form cells; example

graecum subsp. anatolicum - leaves during/after autumn flowers (petals eared)

persicum - leaves well before autumn-spring flowers (leaves as soon as regular water)

CLOSELY-TOOTHED EDGES (but not beaded)

hederifolium - densely or laxly toothed, but without the beaded effect; example (pic 3)

UNBEADED EDGES + any teeth not dense (example)

SCATTERED WHITE SPOTS TOWARDS EDGE (example)

alpinum (FOT: trochopteranthum) - untoothed to slightly, W of Antalya mostly (Flw spring)

cilicicum - sometimes with? see below (Flw Sep-Nov).

SCATTERED WHITE SPOTS ABSENT (ignore a few regular blotches on the main veins; example)

coum - leaves fully developed before spring flowers, outline smooth, virtually round in 1 ssp

hederifolium - leaves during autumn flowering, outline often angularised (angular stretches much larger than individual toothing); petals eared, may be large (to 14 cm) and well-toothed; example

cilicicum - leaves during autumn flowering, only to 4 cm and teeth remote or lacking; E of Antalya, 700-2000 m

mirabile - leaves during/after autumn flowering, often wavy-horny-tipped-toothed, young leaves often pink hairs; example

Flower Features

Auricles/Ears: Petals with small ears/bulges at their base (on either side) - graecum (weakly example example), hederifolium (more strongly)

Flowers Autumn: Sep-Nov - graecum, cilicicum, hederifolium, mirabile

Flowers Spring: Feb-Apr/May - persicum, alpinum, coum

Solid Basal Blotches (no eye): alpinum, cilicium var. cilicicum, mirabile (smaller) - the blotch is uniform to close to the petal base

Solid Basal Blotches (with eye): coum - the eye intrudes the blotch and may disrupt it

No Basal blotch (just darker lines etc though they may merge somewhat): - persicum, graecum, hederifolium, cilicium var. intaminatum

Petals Serrated Ends: mirabile +?

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