Cyclamen alpinum
Cyclamen alpinum
Domuzelması
Sin: C.trochopteranthum
Very similar to C. coum in habit, tuber and foliage, leaves appearing a little in advance of flowers in early spring. Corolla lobes patent, twisted through 90° and resembling the blades of a propeller, broadly ovate, to c. 13 x 10 mm, acute or subacute, margins sometimes obscurely toothed, pale or bright pink or magenta with a conspicuous dark basal blotch, but without the characteristic pallid eye of C. coum. Fruiting pedicel coiling from apex. 2n = 30. Fl. 2-4. Stony ground under bushes, Pinus brutia forest, on limestone or serpentine, 350-1100 m.
Endemic. E. Medit. element. Allied to C. coum.
