Cyclamen
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Cyclamen is a genus of 25 species of perennial flowering plants in the family Primulaceae. In English, it is known by the common name sowbread, or, by the genus name as cyclamen. The species are nativ
Cyclamen purpurascens sl 3
Tuber and roots
A tuber of Cyclamen purpurascens with three floral trunks
Christmas tree pattern on leaf
Aestivation
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Aestivation is a state of animal or plant dormancy, similar to hibernation, although taking place in the summer rather than the winter. Aestivation is characterized by inactivity and a lowered metabol
Cyclamen
…from which the leaves, flowers and roots grow. In most species leaves come up in autumn, grow through the winter and then die in spring, then the plant aestivates, going dormant through the dry Mediterranean summer. The storage organ of the Cyclamen is a round tuber, which develops from the hypocotyl (the stem…
Theba pisana snails aestivating on Foeniculum vulgare in Montbazin, France
Introduced Theba pisana snails aestivating on a row of fence posts in Kadina, South Australia
Numerous individuals of the snail Cernuella virgata aestivating on a wire fence near Glanum, in the south of France.