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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: kalle-k.dk on November 04, 2007, 04:14:46 PM
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I got a couple of question about genus witch have my special interest. First about Paeonia; several has asked me if I know something about there has existed a white form of P. tenuifolia. I told theme, in 1998 that I saw a white form in Edinburgh Botanical Garden. It was in the Rock Garden. A few years after I visited the garden again, but could not find the plant. I asked a Paeonia nursery man in England and he told me that he never had heard about a white form and he thought that it was a P. tenuifolia Roseum I had seen in the garden. Maybe it was white because it was begin to fall. Is there anyone who has heard about a white form of P. tenuifolia.
My second question is about Trillium. Also here there are several who has told me that there is a double Trillium grandiflorum Roseum. They told me that it is Roseum when it is beginning to flowering. Is there any of you who has heard about it.
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I just tried Google and found nothing other than a green double
http://botgard.bio.uu.nl/collection/Gallery2.php?spgmGal=Trillium&spgmPic=46&spgmFilters=t&group=botu#pic (http://botgard.bio.uu.nl/collection/Gallery2.php?spgmGal=Trillium&spgmPic=46&spgmFilters=t&group=botu#pic)
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and
"Trillium grandiflorum, unlike most trilliums, produces many-petaled “double” forms. Forma roseum Farwell, opening a striking clear salmon-pink, occurs very rarely throughout the range, but is frequent in mixed or pure colonies along the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia."
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On Trillium-L recently, there has been some discussion on a double T. g. `Roseum' and someone in Australia seems to think there is such a plant in New Zealand. But I and other Trillium growers have not come across such a plant and Mr. Trillium (S.P.) who lives near to me, certainly hasn't met it. He grows ALL trilliums there are I think. If anyone knew of it, he would. I'm sure in my own mind that someone has seen a double beginning to age to pink and has made unwarranted assumptions.
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Mark you information about Forma roseum Farwell was new information for me. I hope one day I will be lucky to find that form to my collection. I have seen all this mails on Trillium-L and also hope, one day I will be lucky to find “Jenny Rhodes” I am sure both Trillium are so rare, it will be inconceivable to think it was one of this plants, the plant collector I told about, hold it he’s hand on a nursery in England. I am sure, what he hold in he’s hands, was a double white where the flowers was begin to die down. Thank you both for your information’s.