Cyclamen balearicum

Cyclamen balearicum, the Majorca or Balearic cyclamen,[1] St. Peter's violet or sowbread, is a perennial plant 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.

Cyclamen balearicum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Primulaceae
Genus: Cyclamen
Subgenus: C. subg. Psilanthum
Species:
C. balearicum
Binomial name
Cyclamen balearicum

The flowers bloom in spring, are fragrant, and have five upswept white petals.[1] The leaves are arrowhead-shaped and blue-green mottled with silver, with less sharply defined variegation than other cyclamens.

References

  1. "Cyclamen balearicum". RHS. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
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