Cyclamen balearicum
Species of flowering plant
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Cyclamen balearicum, the Majorca or Balearic cyclamen,[1] St. Peter's violet or sowbread, is a perennial plant growing from a tuber, native to shady areas in woodland of short evergreen trees and shrubs (holm oak, Kermes oak, box) up to 1,443 m (4,734 ft) above sea level in the Balearic Islands and in isolated locations in France from the Pyrenees to the Rhone valley.
| Cyclamen balearicum | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Primulaceae |
| Genus: | Cyclamen |
| Subgenus: | C. subg. Psilanthum |
| Species: | C. balearicum |
| Binomial name | |
| Cyclamen balearicum | |
The flowers bloom in spring, are fragrant, and have five upswept white petals.[1] The leaves are arrowhead-shaped and blue-green mottled with silver, with less sharply defined variegation than other cyclamens.