Trillium 2017

[Herman Mylemans]

Steve, at the moment probably the best name for your misnamed Trillium discolor is indeed cuneatum. There is a lot of variation in the flower of cuneatum  (see Lonsdale). The future will tell you more when the plant gets older and when you see some seedpots.
Thanks for the interesting discussion. More people should be interested in Trillium.

People who have the opportunity to see Trillium in the wild should take more pictures of the inside of the flower and put them on the forum that would be a great help for identification of plants that are for sale.

Two weeks ago, I found following plant on a market under the name T. ovatum, to me it looks more Trillium ovatum forma hibbersonii. I will see what happens when the plant is getting older. I hope it stays so little, it is nice pink, but I don't know the colour when it started to flower. 

[Herman Mylemans]

Trillium camschatcense

[Steve Garvie]

Many thanks Herman. I will follow your advice and label it as cuneatum whilst observing it through the growing season.

Here is a close-up of my Trillium camschatcense Nemuro.

[Herman Mylemans]

Many thanks Herman. I will follow your advice and label it as cuneatum whilst observing it through the growing season.

Here is a close-up of my Trillium camschatcense Nemuro.

Steve, beautiful picture and plant. Yours is very different from the one on the website of Rare Plants: http://www.rareplants.co.uk/product/trillium-camschatcense/

[Steve Garvie]

Thanks Herman, my plant was bought from Yuzawa Engei nursery in Japan. Paul Christian's image is of one of the original plants from Nemuro in Hokkaido but what he was selling were seed-raised plants from this strain -possibly from the same commercial source as my plant. Sadly few of these can match the beauty of the original plants found in the wild at Nemuro.

[johnw]

Steve  - Sent this id thread on to Trillium friend in BC, he responded this afternoon:

"John, an easy one, it corresponds to T. cuneatum  and keyed out in Trilliums by Case and Case. Features: anthers dehiscing latrorsely  (hey, I didn’t make up this name), connectives not elongated beyond anther sacs, petals quite large and broad. I have grown it, but not noticed this year. By the way my plants of flexipes x hibbersonii have flowered well this year and I have decided that they definitely are hybrids being nicely intermediate in size.  Good germination of seeds of flexipes x camschtcense, will wait to see whether these are indeed hybrids. Joe"

john

[t00lie]

By the way my plants of flexipes x hibbersonii have flowered well this year and I have decided that they definitely are hybrids being nicely intermediate in size.

john

Hello John
I'm very keen to see some photos of the hybrids if that is possible please ?.

No flowering here of course at this end of the planet .....Just seed on the move such as mixed 'home' Pseudotrillium rivale harvested fresh, sown immediately about 12 weeks ago currently germinating underground .

Cheers Dave.

[Steve Garvie]

Many thanks John. I've changed the label to cuneatum.

[johnw]

Dave  - I certainly will ask Joe Harvey for photos of his hybrida but very much doubt he's gone digital.

john

[Maggi Young]

Bulb Log 16 of 2017 is now online
 Trilliums  in this one.....

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2017Apr191492599329BULB_LOG_1617.pdf

[t00lie]

Dave  - I certainly will ask Joe Harvey for photos of his hybrida but very much doubt he's gone digital.

john

 
No worries John.Thanks.

Cheers Dave.

[Herman Mylemans]

Trillium apetalon and Trillium grandiflorum

[Mariette]

Perhaps anyone can tell me if this is Trillium albidum and what colour the ovary of white Trillium chloropetalum has?

This plant was raised from seed of friends, who grow two trillium they bought as albidum and sessile Rubrum. Many of the seedlings flower white, but not with a green ovary. This one looks more like Trillium albidum, as far as I know.

[Mariette]

In other white flowered seedlings the ovaries show variations indicating hybrid origin.

[Mariette]

Another one.