Cyclamen Cuteness

There's a very pretty potted cyclamen plant sitting smack dab in the middle of the kitchen table these days.

I have no idea where or how we got her but she sure is pretty.

She has deep pink petals that jut up into the air at the top of tall stalks, above the leaves.

A cyclamen's dark green leaves with little patterns on them are heart-shaped. Imagine that!

It's a perennial which means it comes up year after year. (Annuals are one shot deals. They are pretty, they bloom and then, when the season is over, they die.)

"Garden Flower Folklore," a book by Laura C. Martin, is in my home library.  Martin wrote that the word cyclamen is derived from the Greek word "kyklos" which means
circle.

This may have referred to the round corm or tuber of the plant that is underground.

Cyclamen can have powerful  properties and the corm can be poisonous.

Well, I cannot vouch for all the facts one finds about cyclamen. 

It's just a pretty plant and looks nice in the center of the kitchen table.

HAVE YOU EVER GROWN CYCLAMEN?