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Cyclamen
Cyclamen
Cyclamen is a genus of 25 species of perennial flowering plants in the family Primulaceae. In English, it is known by the common name sowbread, or (particularly in horticulture), by the genus name as cyclamen. The species are native to Europe and the Mediterranean Basin east to the Caucasus and Iran, with one species in Somalia. They grow from tubers and are valued for their flowers with upswept petals and variably patterned leaves.
4 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Cyclamen
subgenusCyclamen
Eucosme
subgenusEucosme
Psilanthum
subgenusPsilanthum
Gyrophoebe
subgenusGyrophoebe
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
The Flowering Garden: Winter
Crispijn van de Passe · 1614 · p.31
Maria Sibylla Merian — Der rupsen begin, voedzel en wonderbaare verandering (1712)
Maria Sibylla Merian · 1717 · p.275
Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.283
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.310
The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs
1532 · p.324
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.485
Book of Herbs
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1546 · p.716
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.483
On Medical Materials in Six Books
Dioscorides · 1550 · p.325
De medicinali materia libri sex
Dioscorides · 1552 · p.333
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.974
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.424
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Cyclamen in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 55869.