Balearic Sowbread

Cyclamen balearicum, the Majorca or Balearic cyclamen, 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.

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Is it poisonous?

We have no record of Balearic Sowbread being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.

Easily confused with

• Cyclamen creticum
• Cyclamen cyprium
• Cyclamen persicum
• Cyclamen africanum
• Cyclamen maritimum
• Cyclamen graecum

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Ericales

Family

Primulaceae

Genus

Cyclamen

Species

Cyclamen balearicum

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