30 Did you know that... the national flower of Cyprus is the Cyclamen cyprium? Τhe Cyclamen cyprium Kotchy belongs to the family of Primulaceae and was first discovered by the Austrian botanologist Theodor Kotchy (1813-1860), who visited Cyprus with his colleague Franz Unger (1800-1870) and published in 1865 in Vienna a book called The Island of Cyprus. The Cypriot cyclamen is a local endemic plant found in various types of ecosystems in Akamas, Stavros tis Psokas, Panagra, St. Hilarion, Agios Ambrosios etc. The flowers of this cyclamen have a delicate smell and appear usually in the autumn, before the leaves. The plant appears from September to January. The botanological Congress of April 1966 declared the Cypriot Cyclamen as the national flower of Cyprus.
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