Description
This is a quietly lovely, Japanese and Himalayan species. Three broad plain green leaves appear early in the year at the same time as the almost horizontal, (slightly nodding) pure white flowers. As they age these take on a pale pink tinge, then later still a pale violet colouration.
Readily grown and remarkably hardy for a plant that flowers very early in the Trillium season.
A native of deciduous woodlands in cooler areas of Japan, China and the Himalaya, this revels in a deep, leaf- or humus-rich soil in part shade.
The Asian mainland forms seem to be hardly known in western cultivation. The leaves and flowers are similar to the Japanese forms (broad apple green leaves and a white flower held sideways, above the leaves on a short stalk) though with time the flowers can take on a violet tinge which is usually more pronounced than in the Japanese forms.
Our original stock came from Szechuan a long time ago and these are vegetative divisions from that stock. As growth is slow, they are not often offered. Growth is as for the other forms.
