Family: Primulaceae
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Common name: False Iberian cyclamen, Cyclamen pseudoibericum
Native to the Turkish mountains, this small plant is similar to Cyclamen coum, but has longer petals. The spring-blooming flowers have five reflexed, up-swept petals, and are fragrant and magenta-purple or pink, and have a darker blotch and a white zone at the end of the nose and is hardy to -15 C. In the UK it is usually grown in pots but will grow in sheltered spots outside. It has been given the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
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Family: Primulaceae
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Common name: Sowbread, Wild Cyclamen
This is a beautiful and rare plant often with silver-patterned leathery leaves, and very sweetly scented pink to carmine flowers and which is hardy throughout the British Isles. Unusual for a cyclamen, flowering starts in early June and may last until almost Christmas. R.H.S. 'AGM' Award Winner
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Family: Primulaceae
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Common name: Wavy-edged cyclamen
Late spring-blooming, showy, fragrant rose-pink flowers, deeper coloured at the base of the petals, open above wide, heart-shaped leaves, which are often coarsely toothed or lobed. They live in the wild in woods and shaded banks in Mediterranean countries, from southern France to Greece, and also in Algeria. Very few seeds collected.
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A very rare and beautiful cyclamen with low, gorgeously marbled and patterned marbled heart-shaped foliage. Pink-nosed white flowers add even more to this sought-after and much valued plant, the first ever registered hybrid made in 1955!.
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Family: Primulaceae
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Common name: Pretty shooting star, Few-flowered shooting star, Dark throat shooting star, Prairie shooting star
These sprays of distinctive, swept-back, purple petals give this flower its common name of "Shooting Stars", resembling tiny cyclamen flowers on primula stems (and related to both). The clusters of flowers are held on strong stems above clumps of fleshy, lanceolate, tongue-shaped leaves.
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These sprays of distinctive swept-back petals give this flower its common name of "Shooting Stars", resembling tiny cyclamen flowers on primula stems (and related to both). The clusters of flowers are held on strong stems above clumps of fleshy tongue-shaped leaves.
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Family: Araceae
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Common name: Voodoo Lily, Green Dragon
This attractive, unusual and care-free Japanese aroid very much resembles a dwarfer Arisaema tortuosum, with large, extending green spathes and an elongated spadix that emerges from the spathe and extends 20cm up into the air. Although they spread readily, they are not aggressive, being very easy to grow in the woodland garden and a perfect companion plant for Trillium and Cyclamen.
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