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18-02-2009, 05:31 PM
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| | | Is this cyclamen?
Sorry, this is not a good photo. It seems to be cyclamen, but I was wondering if they usually flower this time of the year? Do they grow wild or is this one that has escaped? 
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18-02-2009, 05:40 PM
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| | | Re: Is this cyclamen?
It certainly looks like Cyclamen to me, there is a winter flowering one!  |
18-02-2009, 05:46 PM
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| | | Re: Is this cyclamen?
I know very little about flowers but that one looks like a Cyclamen to me too 
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18-02-2009, 06:23 PM
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| | | Re: Is this cyclamen?
It is Cyclamen coum - and yes, it is the right season |
18-02-2009, 06:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Tiggrx  It is Cyclamen coum - and yes, it is the right season | agreed I found some of these yesterday Eastern Sowbread is its common name 
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18-02-2009, 06:56 PM
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| | | Re: Is this cyclamen?
I believe the name comes from the way the flower stem coils up when it sets seed.
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18-02-2009, 07:44 PM
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Originally Posted by leifus agreed I found some of these yesterday Eastern Sowbread is its common name | I've never heard anyone ever use it's so called "common" name, only its scientific name! |
18-02-2009, 07:50 PM
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Originally Posted by aeshna5 I've never heard anyone ever use it's so called "common" name, only its scientific name! | Same here, but I was surprised to find that Sowbread is in fact a very old name - it sounds much more like a modern invention. |
19-02-2009, 07:03 AM
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Thanks all. |
19-02-2009, 09:00 AM
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| | | Re: Is this cyclamen?
I seem to have had some of these in my garden all winter,is that the same species?
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