Cyclamen balearicum
Cyclamen balearicum (Majorca or Balearic cyclamen, St. Peter's violet, sowbread) is a perennial growing from a tuber, native to shady areas in woodland of short evergreen trees and shrubs (holm oak, Kermes oak, box) up to 1,443 m (4,734 ft) above sea level in the Balearic Islands and in isolated locations in France from the Pyrenees to the Rhone valley.
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Description
Flowers bloom in spring, are fragrant, and have 5 upswept white petals.
Leaves are arrowhead-shaped and blue-green mottled with silver, with less sharply defined variegation than other cyclamens.
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- Cyclamen Society
- Pacific Bulb Society
- Virtual Herbarium of the Western Mediterranean
- Photos of leaves from trip to Majorca — Midland Alpine Gardener's Diary (middle of page)
- White flowers page — Flora of Mallorca
- Photo — TrekNature
- Photo — BioLib
- Photo — PBase
- Photos — Mallorca es así también (Spanish)
- Mark Griffiths Cyclamen species cultivation and photos site
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