It kinda look like an orchid, but I don’t think it is. It’s in a shady area under our crab apple tree. About 10cm in height.

by misplacedfocus

8 Comments

  1. PiCH1RiLo

    Flowers remind me of Cyclamen, but there are 0 leaves that would indicate so. Let me know when it’s solved.

  2. It’s a Cyclamen of some sort, maybe Cyclamen hederifolium ‘Album’, although you’d usually have foliage.

  3. misplacedfocus

    Yes! Cyclamen! Wooo!

    Thank you everyone!!

  4. Sufficient-Heart6880

    Cyclamen hederifolium album.

    The flowers appear in late summer followed by the leaves . The flower heads curl down and the seedpods and leaves sit there all winter, the leaves die back in spring and the pods ripen in early summer. Collect the seed pods when they start softening (gentle pinch to test), take out the seeds and sow immediately. They will sprout like cress in the autumn, the same time the mature tubers produce leaves. If you don’t sow them when ripe they go dormant and germination is very erratic. You’ll get lots of variation in leaf shape and marking, and maybe some colour variation.

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