Cyclamen balearicum, the Majorca or Balearic cyclamen,[1] St. Peter's violet or sowbread, is a perennial plant growing from a tuber, native to shady areas in woodland of short evergreen trees and shrubs (holm oak, Kermes oak, box) up to 1,443 m (4,734 ft) above sea level in the Balearic Islands and in isolated locations in France from the Pyrenees to the Rhone valley.
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Primulaceae |
| Genus: | Cyclamen |
| Subgenus: | C. subg. Psilanthum |
| Species: | C. balearicum
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The flowers bloom in spring, are fragrant, and have five upswept white petals.[1] The leaves are arrowhead-shaped and blue-green mottled with silver, with less sharply defined variegation than other cyclamens.
References edit
- ^ a b "Cyclamen balearicum". RHS. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
External links edit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cyclamen balearicum.
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- Cyclamen Society
- Pacific Bulb Society
- Virtual Herbarium of the Western Mediterranean
- Photos of leaves from trip to Majorca — Midland Alpine Gardener's Diary (middle of page)
- White flowers Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine page — Flora of Mallorca
- Photo — TrekNature
- Photo — BioLib
- Photo — PBase
- Photos — Mallorca es así también (Spanish)
- Mark Griffiths Cyclamen species cultivation and photos site