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Roger Van Loon writes:
| Nick Maclaren wrote:
|
| From what I understand of where they come from, several species
| (probably including C. coum) are adapted to very poor soils and
| near-waterless summers. I think that the reason they like a lot
| of humus in the UK is for the drainage - with me, they get sand and
| like it!
| Certainly, they estivate quite happily and, if I recall, they are
| fairly common in Crete - where it gets pretty dry in the summer
| by UK standards.
|
| Yes - there are beautiful Cyclamen in Crete, but there's no Cyclamen
| coum there, I think.

Could well be. It is certainly native to a large part of Asia
Minor, most of which has next to no rainfall for several months
in the summer.


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Nick Maclaren,
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