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The Cyclamen is a literary and artistic darling, decorating ceramics, pottery, and jewelry, and found in botanical art references dating back to the first century. It is also a favorite of gardeners, growers, and botanists due to its extraordinary capacity for variation, in colors, shapes, fragrances, and flowering periods.
Genus Cyclamen is a celebration of this remarkable plant. Its science-based emphasis on botany and cultivation is complemented by sections on art and history, including twenty-five newly commissioned paintings and over seven hundred photographs. It provides a wealth of information, including taxonomic descriptions, flowering periods, distribution, and habitat, all based on the deep knowledge and practical experiences of the Cyclamen Society and other cyclamen experts. This book will find a wide audience of growers, gardeners, botanists, and enthusiasts, thanks to its all-encompassing coverage of the cyclamen and its informative, but accessible style.
Genus Cyclamen is a celebration of this remarkable plant. Its science-based emphasis on botany and cultivation is complemented by sections on art and history, including twenty-five newly commissioned paintings and over seven hundred photographs. It provides a wealth of information, including taxonomic descriptions, flowering periods, distribution, and habitat, all based on the deep knowledge and practical experiences of the Cyclamen Society and other cyclamen experts. This book will find a wide audience of growers, gardeners, botanists, and enthusiasts, thanks to its all-encompassing coverage of the cyclamen and its informative, but accessible style.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Acknowledgements
About the major contributors
Introduction
Acknowledgements
About the major contributors
1. The botany of cyclamen
Structure of the cyclamen plant
Cyclamen curiosities and aberrations
Uses, legends, culinary value and toxicity of cyclamen
2. Cyclamen in nature
Introduction, distribution and classification of cyclamen species
The species of Cyclamen
Cyclamen hybrids
Conservation
3. Scientific studies and fieldwork
Introduction
The scent of cyclamen
Comments on taxonomic status of species in Cyclamen subgenus Psilanthum
Ecology and evolution of Cyclamen subgenus Psilanthum
The Cyclamen Society’s fieldwork
4. Cyclamen in cultivation
Growing cyclamen: cultivation and propagation
Pests and diseases of cyclamen
Cyclamen around the World
Exhibiting cyclamen
5. Development of Cyclamen persicum cultivars
Introduction
Selection and breeding
Classification of the C. persicum cultivars
The market for cyclamen
Commercial cultivation of cyclamen
Breeding and seed production
The future of cyclamen
List of cultivars
6. Cyclamen in botanical illustration
Cyclamen in the Old Herbals
The seventeenth century to the present
7. A celebration of cyclamen in art
8. Cyclamen in popular culture
Cyclamen on postage stamps
Cyclamen on ceramics, pottery and glassware
Cyclamen on jewellry and metalware
Other uses of the cyclamen image and name
9. Cyclamen literature—a select bibliography
Cyclamen Society publications
Periodicals that have particular relevance to cyclamen
Floras
The historical sequence
Miscellanea cyclamenologica
References by chapter
Names of cyclamen index
General index