Description
The typical species, T. chloropetalum, has lightly marbled leaves below deep, lustrous purple-brown, red, pink or bicoloured flowers. There are also very rare yellow forms known. The taxon is a variable one which is still in rapid evolution in its native California. In addition generations of gardeners and botanists have misused and misapplied the name chloropetalum and the internet abounds with misnamed plants and pictures also.
Deeply coloured red- and mahogany-flowered plants seem to be the most frequently encountered ones in cultivation, however the species has some amazing colour forms known, in wild populations. The stock offered here is a pure, deep yellow, a colour variation known in some other (east coast) sessile-flowered species of Trillium and a mutation which is presumed to have arisen from a partial loss of the deeper pigments in normally red-brown flowers. The colour is stable from year to year.
Originally this came from mixed seed received from Gay Henderson in New Zealand. Subsequently yellow flowered plants have been segregated and cloned. Please be aware that if you raise further plants from seed of these, not all will be yellow.
The pictures are of our exact, clonal plants. Introduced to our lists November 2020.
