Trillium 2019

[Véronique Macrelle]

thanks for the determination  .
I do not find it as beautiful as Trillium luteum

[Herman Mylemans]

thanks for the determination  .
I do not find it as beautiful as Trillium luteum

Véronique, for Trillium recurvatum the sepals must bend down when the flowers are open.

[Herman Mylemans]

Trillium ovatum also gets a nice colour when the flower is getting older.

[Herman Mylemans]

Trillium grandiflorum f. roseum start to flower! Normal grandiflorum is starting white.

[Herman Mylemans]

Trillium cuneatum

[Mariette]

This one came to me as Trillium cuneatum, but I think it´s Trillium chloropetalum. I like its brilliant colour and good clumping habit; it´s growing in 4 different places in the garden since I got it 9 years ago.

[Herman Mylemans]

This one came to me as Trillium cuneatum, but I think it´s Trillium chloropetalum. I like its brilliant colour and good clumping habit; it´s growing in 4 different places in the garden since I got it 9 years ago.

Mariette, maybe it is Trillium angustipetalum! Does it smell musty? Chloropetalum smells like a rose.

[David Nicholson]

In the Trillium 2017 thread (Replies 135-137) I posted a picture of what I thought might be Trillium rivale leaves, Maggi replied that it wasn't a Trillium and after a bit of excavation it turned out to be a self-sown seedling of Ompholodes cappadocica 'Cherry Ingram' (yes, I know!!)

I persevered, and WOW (at least thrice) there is a Trillium rivale grown from a small bulb I bought in 2016. Aren't I the very happy one

[Mariette]

Mariette, maybe it is Trillium angustipetalum! Does it smell musty? Chloropetalum smells like a rose.

Thank You for pointing to the scent, Herman! There is hardly any to discover, but it´s definitely not pleasant. Very unlike my Trillium albidum, for instance.
The slender habit of the tepals made me consider Trillium angustipetalum, too. Case & Case tell the tepals of this species should be 7 - 14 mm wide, whereas chloropetalum may measure 15 -23 mm. As my plant has tepals 20 mm broad,  I thought it to be Trillium chloropetalum.  A special feature is that a clump lifted splits into several smaller ones without dividing.
The clump shown yesterday has rather long telpals, measuring 9 cm. Usually they are 7 -8 cm, like with this clump.

[Herman Mylemans]

Trillium grandiflorum f. roseum

[Leena]

Last summer I got fresh seeds of Trillium hibbersonii, and look now! So many seedlings coming up.
I usually keep Trillium seedlings in the same pot until their second year when I move them to a bigger pot as a clump, but should I divide these already this summer to several pots?

[Herman Mylemans]

Last summer I got fresh seeds of Trillium hibbersonii, and look now! So many seedlings coming up.
I usually keep Trillium seedlings in the same pot until their second year when I move them to a bigger pot as a clump, but should I divide these already this summer to several pots?

Leena, nice to see so many seedlings of hibbersoni.
I would leave the seedlings together and put them as a clump in a larger pot (after summer). After you have seen 3 leaves you can divide them in different pots, I wait to plant them out in the garden till they have flowered.

[Leena]

I would leave the seedlings together and put them as a clump in a larger pot (after summer). After you have seen 3 leaves you can divide them in different pots, I wait to plant them out in the garden till they have flowered.

Thank you, I will do that.

[Mariette]

This one I´ve got as Trillium albidum. The anthersacs should open latrorse, but to me it looks introrse. Probably a matter for more knowledgeble people.

[Mariette]

This bunch of seedlings is grown from US - seed, the donor wrote: sessile - type, 25 cm, maroon. The flowers start a more brilliant red, but later fade to a more brownish tone. Any ideas what species this might be?