Trillium 2021

[Leena]

Thank you Herman, I suspected it and it is good to know they are hybrids. I like it, too, and often hybrids are even better plants than species.
I got seeds from the white flowering plants, but they haven't germinated yet, it will be interesting to see how they will look later.

[Leena]

Couple of more Trilliums.
The first was grown from seed ex 2014 as T.sessile, very nice compact plant with relatively big flowers and nice foliage.
The second was also sown in 2014, it is T.erectum Klon5, and flowering now for the first time.

[Herman Mylemans]

Couple of more Trilliums.
The first was grown from seed ex 2014 as T.sessile, very nice compact plant with relatively big flowers and nice foliage.
The second was also sown in 2014, it is T.erectum Klon5, and flowering now for the first time.

Lena, nice Trilliums! The first one is type sessile, but the flower is to big to be the real Trillium sessile.

[Herman Mylemans]

Trillium sulcatum

[Leena]

Lena, nice Trilliums! The first one is type sessile, but the flower is to big to be the real Trillium sessile.

Herman, thank you. 
I have suspected that it wasn't the real T.sessile, but it is a very nice plant, short but still relatively big flowers. Do you think it is also a hybrid?
Last year I was hoping to get seeds from it but then deer ate the flower, this year I hope for better luck now that we have a fence around the garden (deer can still jump but that doesn't happen very often).

[Rick R.]

I also have a very similar looking one sold to me as T. sessile.


I first suspected it was not sessile when I saw the "bulb":


True T. sessile is rhizomatous (see arrow). Collected by a friend on his land in Illinois, USA.  I was a bit baffled when I first examined the structure, as it isn't a straight forward horizontal rhizome as T. cuneatum and T. recurvatum are :




Trillium cuneatum


Herman, does this all seem right to you?

[Herman Mylemans]

Leena and Rick, what is the smell?
I was thinking at Trillium foetidissimum, that one should be extremely fetid or stinking especially when there is some sun.
Rick, for identification you are right that the rhizomes are important, also the berries. I collect pictures of them on our computer. But I don't have one of Trillium foetidissimum.

I have added a picture from J.F Gyer about the ovary has help.

The other picture Trillium foetidissimum  in our garden.
Interesting link: https://bisque.cyverse.org/image_service/image/00-6z5oPKupd2j9woYgi6kgin/resize:1250/format:jpeg

[Rick R.]

Mine has a light, pleasant fragrance. 

[Leena]

Mine has no smell, or a very faint one, not bad but not good either. My biggest T.chloropetalum smelled like fruit, not a strong scent but very nice. I haven't smelled them earlier, so it was a surprise how good the scent was. Then I have another big T.chloropetalum - almost no scent!

[Herman Mylemans]

Mine has no smell, or a very faint one, not bad but not good either. My biggest T.chloropetalum smelled like fruit, not a strong scent but very nice. I haven't smelled them earlier, so it was a surprise how good the scent was. Then I have another big T.chloropetalum - almost no scent!

T. chloropetalum should smell like a rose.

[Herman Mylemans]

Trillium recurvatum

[Herman Mylemans]

Trillium lancifolium starts to flower!

[Leena]

Trillium chloropetalum leaves have been damaged, but is this because of snails, or too dry or too much sun?

[Carolyn]

Leena, mine are like that too. I think it’s too dry and sunny for them. In fact, mine look worse than yours, after frosts and a bitterly cold north wind in May.

[Herman Mylemans]

Here also a lot of leaves are damaged. There was a dry hot week in spring when there were still no leaves on the shrubs. Then there were times with storm and hail, flower stems broke off. Even the development of the berries is bad. Now there is regular water and temperatures around 20°C, but the damage is done. Some of the Trilliums are even already completely at rest.