Cyclamen coum
Cyclamen coum
Var caucasicum: Domuzağırşağı; var coum: Yersomunu
Tuber small, generally less than 3,5 cm diam., strongly depressed-globose, pubescent, rooting from base. Leaves appearing in winter and early spring a little before flowers, suborbicular or broadly ovate-cordate, 2-5 cm long and almost as wide, dull green or usually variously marbled above, margins entire or sometimes irregularly toothed. Corolla pale or dark magenta, rarely white, lobes exauriculate, reflexed, suborbicular or broadly ovate, 8-15 mm, acute or obtuse, margins entire or rarely somewhat toothed, base marked with a conspicuous dark blotch surrounding a small white or pale pink eye. Style included or shortly exserted. Fruiting pedicel coiling from apex. Fl. 2-5. Pinus brutia, Abies and Quercus-Fagus lorest, under scrub on rocky hillsides, s.l.-2135 m.
1. Leaves orbicular. or suborbicular, entire or subentire; corolla lobes short, obtuse or rounded, usually less than 10 mm var. coum
1. Leaves broadly ovate-cordate, often acute or subacute and toothed; corolla lobes acute or subacute, 10-15 mm var. caucasicum
