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a couple mutants and other various trillium forms
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Posted by Paul_ z4/5 MI (My Page) on Sat, May 28, 05 at 23:50
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RE: a couple mutants and other various trillium forms
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| Wow, aren't you the lucky one. |
RE: a couple mutants and other various trillium forms
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| Wow I've never seen green and white varities. Where did you find these? I have observed white ones that turn pink as they are fading out. |
RE: a couple mutants and other various trillium forms
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| The pink trilliums are aged white ones, the white trillium flower turns pink as it ages. The red trillium is a different species of trillium The green/pink and green striped trilliums are white trilliums infected with a virus that causes the green stripes. The plants will weaken and eventually die, occasionally a trillium will recover from the virus. If they were in your garden, you should destroy them before they infect other trilliums. |
RE: a couple mutants and other various trillium forms
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| We have quite a lot of red trillium in our back yard and a few grandiflorum (large white) but then we also have what appears to be a hybrid between the two. They look like Grandiflorum but have the smaller petals and they are light pink from the time they open in spring. Hopefully it's a hybrid and not a bacteria as with the green and white which as was stated is not a colour mutation but a disease. Paul, your photos are lovely! Very nicely done. My father loves to photograph trilliums and I have a print of one of his diseased grandiflorum (green and white) hanging in my upstairs hallway. He was astonished when I informed him it wasn't a different trillium but a diseased one. Barb
Southern Ontario, CANADA zone 6a |
RE: a couple mutants and other various trillium forms
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| Wow, I want some too. I know some nurseries are selling them now at inflated prices. |
RE: a couple mutants and other various trillium forms
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- Posted by Paul_ z4/5 MI (My Page) on
Wed, Jun 22, 05 at 23:51
| Thanks for the complements folks. : ) Judy, I was really bummed when I found out that the green and white was due to disease! I had hoped it was just a weird 'sport'. |
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