Cyclamen balearicum

Cyclamen balearicum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Primulaceae
Genus: Cyclamen
Subgenus: Psilanthum
Binomial name
Cyclamen balearicum
Willk.

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.

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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