Florist's cyclamen, Cyklamen (Cyclamen persicum)

A species of flowering herbaceous perennial plant growing from a tuber, native to rocky hillsides, shrubland, and woodland, from south-central Turkey to Lebanon-Syria, east to Jordan and south to Israel. Flowers bloom from winter to spring (var. persicum) or in autumn (var. autumnale) and have 5 small sepals and 5 upswept petals, usually white to pale pink with a band of deep pink to magenta at the base. Cyclamen carry on individual stems standing flowers that hang down but whose petals are bent strongly upwards.