Sowbread (Cyclamen hederifolium) - Plants - WB
Sowbread (Cyclamen hederifolium) an autumn flowering species. Feral pigs reputedly fed on the tubers (hence the name "sowbread' and the ivy-like leaves with highly variable marbling appear after the flowers (hederifolium = ivy-leaved). Photographed nr the Etruscan tombs at Norchia, nr VIterbo, Lazio, Italy - September 2013


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