Can anyone identify these Cyclamens species?

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  1. groundbeetle

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    I have a lot of photographs of these in my photos, but although they are accessible by date in my photos, when I try to upload them here they are just tiny thumbnail images in a morass of images that don't seem to be sortable by date. These are not the best photographs I have of these pots, but although the date is visible in my photos, when I try to upload them here all that is visible is a morass of thumbnail images with no date.

    All these were planted from seed in February 2023. The photographs of the leaves were taken in January 2024. Right now some flowers have come up for the first time, white and pink ones, which I assume are Cyclamen hildebrandii. Cyclamen hildebrandii is a hybrid of Cyclamen hederifolium and Cyclamen africanum.

    In these 2 pots they will be mostly Cyclamen hildebrandii, both the white Cyclamen hildebrandii album and a packet of seeds where the colour wasn't specified, but right now I have both white and pink flowers. Also a lot of different wild varieties of Cyclamen persicum. There may well be other varieties of Cyclamen in these pots too. I did plant some seeds of Cyclamen pseudibericum, which I assumed either never came up or I just don't know how to identify them and they could just take longer to begin to flower.

    I will try to take some photographs of the flowers tomorrow. I took some 6 days ago, not good photographs and they look a lot better now. Also I can't upload a third photograph without the image going at the top instead of with the other photographs, or trying to show it as a thumbnail.



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    I think all these flowers are Cyclamen hildebrandii album (white) and pink Cyclamen hildebrandii. These are the same pots that I photographed the leaves in January this year.


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    I know this one is Cyclamen purpurascens. Photographed in morning light better, in spite of the wind and rain storm yesterday.

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    And these have to be Cyclamen persicum? But I planted so many seeds in these pots, of both wild varieties of Cyclamen persicum and seeds from my own Morrisons-bought "houseplant" florists' Cyclamen persicum, that I am not exactly sure which they are. I did start of with careful seed labels, but they got abandoned later on. I did make careful notes of all the seeds I planted and when, other than the florists' Cyclamen persicum seeds, which just got tossed around all over the place, though not in the first two pots in this thread which are only wild varieties of Cyclamen persicum mixed with Cyclamen hildebrandii.

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    And I think these are Cyclamen persicum, probably seeds from the florists' Cyclamen that I have, but not entirely sure.

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