Cyclamen tubers
Mary Sue Ittner (Sun, 03 Mar 2019 11:02:35 PST)

Hi,

I made a wiki page for Cyclamen tubers:

https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

If anyone has photos of ones we are missing that you would be willing to
have us add to the wiki, please send them to me privately and I'll add
them or you could attach them to a response to the list and I could copy
them from that source. I think it is very interesting how much they vary
in size. Some of them you could probably grow in containers
indefinitely, but others would get much too big.

Also I have a question about the latest opinions about what family
Cyclamen belongs in,  Primulaceae or Myrsinaceae .  A number of the data
bases are attributing it to Primulaceae (Kew, Plants of the World
Online,Tropicos, some wikipedias) but our wiki states: "Phylogenetic
studies found that members of the Primulaceae and Myrsinaceae were not
monophyletic and reassignments have been made. Thus, some members of the
Primulaceae such as Cyclamen are now included in the Myrsinaceae." In a
Google search there are some sources agreeing with this. Can anyone
provide up to date information on this?

In searching further I see that Trientalis (also changed to Myrsinaceae)
and on the wiki is listed in Jepson as belonging to Myrsinaceae but is
now named Lysimachia. Keeping up with all the name changes is really a
full time job, not something that a few volunteers can do. Then there is
also the challenge to pronounce some of the new plant names. Remember
the discussions about how to pronounce Clivia? We are going to need
pronunciation guides. I don't usually take the time to find a source
online that pronounces a new name and just make a guess and I expect
others may do the same. I explain if I'm asked, that I don't really know
the right pronunciation.

Mary Sue

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