[Melvyn]

Thank you Cali for showing the bunches of cyclamen flowers, as Alisdair said you can almost smell the perfume just looking at them.
As far as I am aware Cyclamen graecum has not been found on Corfu. It was not encountered on the Cyclamen Society field study in 2008 and I have not found it, or any spring flowering species, on a number of private visits.
I have included three photos showing the range of flower colours to be found on the island all of which I imagine you are familiar with.They are all C.hederifolium.
C. confusum does not grow on Corfu, as far as we know, and has so far only been identified from the west of Crete. As to whether the Corfu plants include ssp. crassifolium I think it probably does but that is the subject of continuing research. The Cyclamen Society have so far studied plants in the Ionian Islands of Zakinthos, Corfu and Kythera, next month field studies will be undertaken in Kefalonia. Hopefully we will soon know a little more about C.hederifolium ssp crassifolium

[Cali]

Thank you, Melvyn and all. So, for the time being we will stick with plain hederifolium.

[Alisdair]

What an incredible colour Melvyn's last plant is!

[Cali]

I see quite a few dark ones like that.

[John]

I haven't done much with C. rohlfsianum especially as they don't usually set much seed. This is one of the few seedlings that I have selected and grown on with an almost silver leaf.

[oron peri]

A beauty in bloom today for the first time.
Recived as seeds from John Fielding back in 2006 as confusum 'Dark Form'.
At the moment it is the darkest and rediest in my entire collection!!

[Alisdair]

Wow, what an amazing colour Oron!
Clearing up my desk just now (long overdue) I found a little note that in February in the Peloponnese this year I found a bulldozed Cyclamen graecum tuber which - before I rehomed it - I measured and weighed.
It was just over 200 mm across, and (despite being virtually rootless) weighed 1.714 kg.

[Cali]

Hmmm.... maybe some of the Corfu ones are confusum after all (sheepish grin).

[jo]

What a fabulous colour Oron.  Is it flowering a little later than in the wild or does confusum normally flower later ?

Alisdair, it sounds like you had a pumpkin, not a graecum 

[Alisdair]

Hee hee Jo!
In the Peloponnese there are colonies of the confusum/crassifolium type of hederifolium which are normally still in flower in January.

[John]

Oron, well it was worth sending you a bit of seed then, darker than the original, mine!

[John]

Here's a healthy C. rohlfsianum which I have just repotted. It is 10 years old and hadn't come into growth yet. My hand for scale. Note how nobbly this species gets. In old age this progresses into a splitting of the tuber which I have also seen in C. purpurascens.

[HansA]

Beautiful patterned C. rohlfsianum, John - hope will find one similar among my seedlings.

Oron - this colour is really fantastic!

Most C. rohlfsianum are over now and start to show their beautiful leaves, while C. cilicium and C. hederifolium are in full flower.

[Alisdair]

For Ori's photo of the autumn-flowering Cyclamen persicum among other mouth-watering bulbs in bloom at the moment in Israel, after rains,click here.

[cycnich]

A few leaves of Cyclamen Hederifolium from my garden today.