I have very similar plants derived from erectum, which I think crossed with flexipes. Pamela Harlow, Seattle, zone 8 On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Robin Graham Bell <rgb2@cornell.edu> wrote: > David, It's a bit unusual to have two that look so similar, if I > understand you correctly.....first 4 photos represent two plants? But I > would suggest that you have a hybrid flexipes x erectum cross, with > examples of the two parents, if my guess is correct, in the last photo. > Maybe it suggests that your source was actually growing plants from seed > since this is usually a garden or domestic cross rather than a wild plant. > Does not look like sulcatum, or at least what I think of as sulcatum. For > what it's worth, of course. > Robin Bell, Medford, zone 7 OR. > On Apr 18, 2014, at 5:21 PM, administrator@pilling.demon.co.uk wrote: > > > Suzanne Vaughan wrote to the PBS web site: > > > > "This trillium (actually, there are 2 of them, first 4 photos) is > different than any I have. I bought it from a nursery in Tennesse. I know > that white trilliums begin white and fade to pink. The red and purple bloom > as red and purple. But this one, only opened on Wednesday and it opened > this color. The petals almost look more like the coloring of a hellebore. > The petals started out this shaded, beige, pinkish color. Last photo is a > red or purple trillium, not sure, but it starts out this color. Any ideas? > Is it just a strange mutation of the red or purple? (but I have 2, as far > as I know right now)." > > > > You can see the photos here: > > > > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… > > > > Replies to the list please > > > > > > > > > > > > > > David Pilling > > _______________________________________________ > > pbs mailing list > > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >