Indoors
Cyclamen
Cyclamen persicum
- Cat: toxic
- Dog: toxic
- Light: bright, no harsh sun
About the plant
The Persian cyclamen comes from the eastern Mediterranean and flowers in winter, when the house is cool. It has silver-patterned heart-shaped leaves and flowers with petals swept back. Its tuber is toxic to cats and dogs; keep it out of their reach.
Cyclamen and pets
- Cat
- toxic
- Dog
- toxic
- Signs
- terpenoid saponins (most in the tuber): drooling, vomiting, diarrhea; after eating the tuber heart rhythm problems, seizures, death
If a cat or a dog ate this plant and shows signs, contact a vet straight away.
Instead: safe for cats and dogs
Care
- Watering
- about every 4 days in summer (April to September), every 6 in winter
- Light
- bright, no harsh sun
- Air humidity
- normal
- Temperature
- 8–18 °C
- Feeding
- not needed
- Repotting
- every 2 years, in spring
- Grown
- in a pot
It likes cool: in a warm room it fades fast. Water from below, the tuber rots from water on top; twist off faded flowers at the tuber.
This is a rough guide for a flat in Poland. In flowers every plant also has its own watering interval, which learns from how the soil was.