Cyclamen coum Yayladagi
Jane McGary (Wed, 07 Feb 2018 10:55:37 PST)

It is the collection site. "Dag" is Turkish for 'mountain', so this
population is on Yayla Dag.

Cyclamen coum is in full flower here in Oregon at the moment. I put most
of mine in one place when I moved to my present home, wanting some cover
under a deciduous magnolia, with the benefit of the greedy magnolia
roots keeping the cyclamen dry enough while dormant. With seedlings they
should form an almost continuous cover in a few more years. In addition
to some of unknown provenance, I have a group called 'Urfa Strain' and,
from wild-collected seed, Cyclamen coum subsp. caucasicum. 'Urfa' is
supposed to be especially cold-hardy, and I think caucasicum is usually
(though not this  year) later to flower. Now they're all crossing, of
course. It's so warm here this winter that honeybees are out already. I
get a few white cyclamen but would like more for contrast; I marked out
white C. hederifolium for moving here, but just dug up a patch of coum
without knowing the colors.

Companions to this planting are ordinary Galanthus nivalis 'Simplex' and
pale blue Puschkinia. Erythronium hendersonii is there too, and some
hepaticas already showing a few flowers.

Jane McGary

Portland, Oregon, USA

On 2/7/2018 10:34 AM, Arnold Trachtenberg wrote:

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