Cyclamen

Cyclamen

　　　　Product Origin: Xin’anjiang, Hangzhou

　　Product Category: Cyclamen is a perennial herbaceous flowering plant of the Primulaceae family.

　　Product Features: It boasts vibrant flower colors, uniquely attractive shapes, neatly formed leaves with patterns, and is a world-renowned greenhouse flower.

　　Product Season: Blooming period from December to May of the following year.

　　Product Value: Cyclamen is suitable for decorating meeting room tables in winter and is also ideal for home dining tables, shelves, windowsills, and more.

　　Product Description: The cyclamen bulb is flat and round. Leaves grow from the center at the top of the bulb, are nearly heart-shaped, with grayish-white patterns on the front and purplish undersides. The flowers are solitary, available in shades of purplish-red, rose, crimson, light red, and white, with a blooming period of up to half a year, making them highly ornamental. They are one of the main potted flowers during the winter and spring seasons. Xin’anjiang Horticultural Farm has been cultivating them for nearly ten years and now produces 20,000 finished pots annually, making it the largest production base in our province and a featured agricultural product in our city. It received high praise from attendees at the 1997 East China Flower Exhibition and Trade Fair.

　　Product History: Cyclamen is not just an ordinary flower. Its geographical origin is quite complex. Evidence shows that cyclamen is one of the early surviving types of plants from prehistoric times, as many of its key characteristics date back to the Tertiary geological period 6 million years ago. Additionally, judging by the distribution of its original species, it evolved into different types through land surface separation and shifts during crustal movements from a single original species. As a result, although many cyclamens may look similar, they can be classified into 18 series and 20 species, with most named based on their places of origin—such as Cyprus cyclamen, Greek cyclamen, European cyclamen, and so on. Most of the cultivated varieties today are derived from the common cyclamen species.