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Seedy Subjects! => Seeds Wanted => Topic started by: gordon julian on February 26, 2013, 10:33:08 AM

Title: Trillium rivale 'Purple Heart'
Post by: gordon julian on February 26, 2013, 10:33:08 AM

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

Title: Re: Trillium rivale 'Purple Heart'
Post by: Otto Fauser on February 27, 2013, 04:30:04 AM

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 .

Title: Re: Trillium rivale 'Purple Heart'
Post by: Claire Cockcroft on March 03, 2013, 05:22:17 PM

Hello, Gordon,

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

Title: Re: Trillium rivale 'Purple Heart'
Post by: brianw on March 03, 2013, 06:06:07 PM

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

Title: Re: Trillium rivale 'Purple Heart'
Post by: Rodger Whitlock on June 13, 2013, 08:15:04 PM

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.