| Cyclamen pseudibericum | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Myrsinaceae |
| Genus: | Cyclamen |
| Subgenus: | Gyrophoebe |
| Series: | Pubipedia |
| Species: | C. pseudibericum |
| Binomial name | |
| Cyclamen pseudibericum |
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Cyclamen pseudibericum (incorrectly spelled pseudoibericum) is a perennial growing from a tuber, native to the Amanus or Nur and Anti-Taurus Mountains in southern Turkey. It is similar to Cyclamen coum, but has longer petals.
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The tuber roots from the center below, like Cyclamen coum.
The leaves are longer than wide, with a hastate or Christmas-tree pattern in green and silver.
The flowers bloom in spring. They are fragrant and magenta-purple or pink, with a darker blotch and a white zone at the end of the nose, larger than that of Cyclamen coum.
Seeds are held in a pod on a stem that coils starting at the end.
There are two naturally occurring forms, distinguished by predominant flower color. Cyclamen pseudibericum f. pseudibericum is magenta-purple and Cyclamen pseudibericum f. roseum is light pink to nearly white.
Cyclamen ×schwarzii Grey-Wilson is a fertile hybrid Cyclamen pseudibericum × Cyclamen libanoticum. This hybrid can cross back with one of the parents. According to Grey-Wilson some very pale forms of Cyclamen pseudibericum f. roseum could actually be Cyclamen ×schwarzii or back-cross of it.[1]