About Cyclamen graecum Link
This species, Cyclamen graecum Link, has a corky tuber with a thick, strong, fleshy anchor, and roots grow from the center of the tuber's bottom. Its leaves are heart-shaped and toothed. Flowers bloom in autumn, each with five petals that are white or pink with a darker blotch at the petal nose. The flowers are often fragrant. The bases of the petals curl outwards to form auricles. After pollination, the flower stem coils in both directions starting from the center, unlike the coiling starting from the top seen in Cyclamen hederifolium. Cyclamen graecum is native to southern mainland Greece, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, Crete, and Cyprus, growing in a wide variety of areas up to 1,200 m (3,900 ft) in elevation.
