Monday, November 9, 2015

Cyclamen elegans

  Cyclamen elegans (Cyclamen coum subsp. elegans) is a perennial growing from a tuber, native to the Alborz Mountains in northern Iran and southeastern Azerbaijan. It is native to forest in the Alborz Mountains of northwestern Iran and extreme southeastern Azerbaijan below 500 m (1,600 ft) elevation, where it can even be found growing in moss on the lower limbs of trees.
  • Original Name: "Цикламен изящный"
  • Country: USSR
  • Year: 1983-06-14
  • Subject: Flowers
  • Face value: 15 kop
  • Number of catalogue Michel: SU 5281