Trillium rivale 'Purple Heart'

[gordon julian]

Can any member offer a source for seeds of Trillium rivale 'Purple Heart' or Trillium rivale ? 'Purple Haze'. I have the white/pale pink forms of Trillium rivale which grow well for me here in Tasmania and it multiplies well from seed set, Gordon Julian

[Otto Fauser]

Hello Gordon , Lynn McGough in the Blue Mountains has T. rivale 'Purple Haze' for sale .Look up her plant list :Lynn's Rare Plants .

      Here in the Dandenongs T. rivale selfsows abundantly (almost a weed -but a nice one ) .,but not all seedlings of 'Purple Haze ' come true .
                 Otto .

[Claire Cockcroft]

Hello, Gordon,

I often have ample Trillium rivale seeds to share. including 'Purple Heart'.  Contact me by PM about details.

[brianw]

I thought Purple Heart was a clone, not a seed strain. Seedlings may be similar but not P.H. if it is a clone.

[Rodger Whitlock]

I have a seed grown T. rivale that has a darker center than the authentic 'Purple Heart', the latter of which I was generously given by a Seattle friend with a well-deserved reputation for reliable naming of his plants. The seedling is, in my opinion, considerably better — more "purple heartish" you might say — than the clone. Moral: sow lots of seed from many sources and you too may find an 'Improved Purple Heart' among them. (Or should that be 'Purpler Heart'?)

The original does multiply well vegetatively. I don't yet know if that's true of my seed-grown one.