Solved Type of Cyclamen?

I know it is an outdoor Cyclamen, but I don't know what type. (And the little flower to its right is a Crocus). It isn't a Cyclamen hederifolium, which have ivy shaped leaves, and I don't think it is Cyclamen coum either.

It has been flowering since last October. I have had it for two years and it came into flower like clockwork last autumn.

 

It looks like the type of cyclamen that are sold in the autumn, intended for flowering in sheltered places or cool under cover places.
Basically a hybrid I would guess.

 

@pete, yes I bought it from Morrisons the autumn before last, in full flower, and it flowered for ages and then last autumn it started to flower again. It seems very hardy outside and it has even seeded itself.

 

They go on for years if they are happy and get bigger.

 

That is almost certainly a white form of C. persicum. There are hardier versions of it around these days.

 

@Palustris, thanks I just looked it up, and you are right. Seems the small version of Cyclamen persicum can be grown outside but has to be in a sheltered place and doesn't like frost. It flowers winter to early spring, but mine started flowering in October and is still flowering. Full sun to partial shade. My garden is in a relatively mild climate but the main problem is lack of light, which this Cyclamen doesn't seem to mind too much.

 

A hardy form of C. persicum was found in the mountains of Lebanon. The genes from that one have been bred into the old C. persicum to produce this slightly hardier version

 

We got snow yesterday, which is unusual here, and fingers crossed it looks as though my Cyclamen persicum has survived, and its babies, most of which are only a tiny transparent bulb and one leaf. This Cyclamen persicum is in its third winter now and has spread out a lot with loads of white flowers and pretty leaves, and seeded itself to produce many babies. I would hate to lose it to exceptionally cold weather, but it has survived winters already and maybe it is one of those that came from the hardy genes from the mountains of Lebanon that Palustris describes.

It is probably the best thing in my garden right now. There are a few odd survivors of summer flowers but this Cyclamen persicum is in full flower and its silvery patterned leaves are beautiful. In previous years it flowered all winter from about October to March, starting to get tatty and eaten by February. And in the summer it vanishes under the ground so that I can let the lobelia and alysum grow out over it, and then in autumn I cut back the lobelia and alysum and they grow back again in late spring/early summer.

 

I took a photograph of this Cyclamen today and she has survived the snow.