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Scientific name:

Cyclamen coum

Vernacular name:

Sowbread, Eastern


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Eastern Sowbread

Scientific name: Cyclamen coum Mill.

Diagnostic features
Leaves 3-7cm, usually ± reniform, not angled.
Corolla-lobes bright pink each with dark basal blotch, 7-15mm.

Chromosome number: (2n=28, 30).

Habitat
Introduced-naturalized; on roadside verges and in grassy places.

Distribution
Scattered in South England; East Mediterranean.

This species is keyed out on Page 3525 in the Text Key.

Cyclamen coum (Sowbread, Eastern)
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