(Cycad, Debao Fern Cycad, Multipinnate Cycad)

One glance at Debao fern cycad and you'll think it's a short-stemmed tree fern rather than a cycad, but don't be fooled. This rare cycad was recently discovered by botanists in 1996 in the Yunnan and Guangxi Provinces of China. It is a cone-bearing evergreen plant that grows in sunny, rocky openings among highland forests.

This cycad grows from an underground stem (caudex) with only a small portion extending above the soil. From the tip of the caudex emerges the highly ornate fronds. Each...

(King Sago, Sago Palm)

Sago palm is not a true palm but a cycad. This cone-bearing, clump-forming evergreen is a southern Japanese native and develops a tree-like appearance over time. Its long leaves are dark, glossy green and feathery in appearance but stiff and prickly to the touch. They are densely clustered and radiate from a central point at the top of the woody trunk-like stems.

Cycads are dioecious, meaning plants bear either male or female cone flowering structures. Male plants produce fuzzy, gold-brown...

(Eastern Cyclamen, Perennial Cyclamen)

The charming flowers and elegant foliage of this hardy cyclamen are highlights of the winter garden. A low, clump-forming, tuberous perennial, it is native from eastern Bulgaria to western Azerbaijan, with disjunct subspecies in Northwest Iran and the Levant.

Relatively small, fuzzy tubers shaped like cheese wheels give rise in autumn to deep green, kidney-shaped to heart-shaped leaves with scalloped or toothed margins. The leaves of some plants have striking silver or pewter markings. The...

(Perennial Cyclamen, Something Magic Cyclamen)

Truly magical is this selection from Terra Nova Nurseries. Cyclamen ‘Something Magic’ offers a compact plant with stunning foliage and large bright rose-pink blooms. One of the first plants propagated from tissue culture so the individual plants are uniform in size, color and growth requirements.

This is one of the hardiest cyclamen for garden use. Native to the mountains of Bulgaria, Turkey and Lebanon, C. coum is a tuberous perennial. Like many garden cyclamen,...

(Ivy-leaved Cyclamen)

This hardy, durable, low-growing perennial offers charming flowers in late summer and handsome foliage through the chilly months. Native to southern Europe and westernmost Turkey, it has escaped gardens and established naturalized populations over much of the rest of Europe.

The gray- to dark-green, heart-shaped to lance-shaped leaves of Cyclamen hederifolium arise from underground tubers in late summer or early fall. The leaves are often strikingly marbled or veined with contrasting...

(Florists' Cyclamen, Persian Cyclamen)

A familiar sight on the shelves of supermarkets and florist shops, this tender herbaceous perennial is native to the eastern Mediterranean. The rounded, heart-shaped leaves, which are sometimes strikingly marbled with silvery or pewter mottling, emerge in fall and are attractive well into spring. Purple, mauve, pink, or white flowers - with backswept, shooting-star petals - appear from late fall to early spring. They are often fragrant. The plant dies back to a rounded tuber in late spring. Many...

(Florist's Cyclamen, Miracle Flame Mix Cyclamen, Persian Cyclamen)

Miracle Flame cyclamens bear pastel, pale-edged blooms on tidy compact plants. Miracle Series cyclamens are seed-propagated F1 hybrids selected and bred for production and sale as seasonal container plants. Like other florist's cyclamen cultivars they derive from Cyclamen persicum, a tender tuberous perennial from the eastern Mediterranean.

Miracle Series cyclamens form dense, compact, symmetrical mounds of handsome, heart-shaped, silver-mottled leaves that expand in fall or early winter....

(Florist's Cyclamen, Miracle Cyclamen, Persian Cyclamen)

Compact and colorful, cyclamens in the Miracle Series are seed-propagated F1 hybrids selected and bred for production and sale as seasonal container plants. Like other florist's cyclamens they derive from Cyclamen persicum, a tender tuberous perennial from the eastern Mediterranean.

Miracle Series cyclamens form dense, compact, symmetrical mounds of handsome, heart-shaped, silver-mottled leaves that expand in fall or early winter. Solitary, nodding flowers with five backswept, upright...

(Florist's Cyclamen, Persian Cyclamen, Sierra Synchro™ Light Pink with Eye Cyclamen)

A familiar sight on the shelves of supermarkets and florist shops, this tender herbaceous perennial is native to the eastern Mediterranean. The rounded, heart-shaped leaves, which are sometimes strikingly marbled with silvery or pewter mottling, emerge in fall and are attractive well into spring. Purple, mauve, pink, or white flowers - with backswept, shooting-star petals - appear from late fall to early spring. They are often fragrant. The plant dies back to a rounded tuber in late spring. Many...

(Florist's Cyclamen, Persian Cyclamen, Sierra Synchro™ Series)

A familiar sight on the shelves of supermarkets and florist shops, this tender herbaceous perennial is native to the eastern Mediterranean. The rounded, heart-shaped leaves, which are sometimes strikingly marbled with silvery or pewter mottling, emerge in fall and are attractive well into spring. Purple, mauve, pink, or white flowers - with backswept, shooting-star petals - appear from late fall to early spring. They are often fragrant. The plant dies back to a rounded tuber in late spring. Many...