Trillium pusillum
Melanthiaceae
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Habitat:
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part shade, woodland
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Flowering:
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spring
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Size:
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15
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15
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Soil:
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with plenty of humus
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Trillium pusillum
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Price
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£7.00
(9 cm pot)
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Order code:
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TPB-9
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These excellent woodland plants come mainly from North America, with most species in the eastern part, some in the west (with a gap in between), and a few stragglers in Japan and China. As their name implies, they have three of everything: three large leaflets, often beautifully mottled, on each of the leaves, three sepals, and at the centre of the leaves the flower, with three petals, sometimes long and narrow and sometimes broad and showy. They are slow to raise from seed, but once established each thick rhizome gradually multiplies, eventually giving fine clumps. They are all good plants for a leafy soil in a shady places, and the best are stunning. All are well worth waiting for.
Trillium pusillum has plain green leaves with three leaflets, relatively long compared to their width, and white flowers, fading to pale pink, on short stems arising from the centre of the leaves. Delightful: much more delicate than most of its cousins.
Other related plants:
Three slender, white petals above three lightly spotted leaves.
Nodding pale pink flowers on short stems, from centre of three leaflets.
Maroon-spotted leaves and deep maroon flowers.
Mottled leaves and white flowers, with a pinky-red centre.
Dark red or white flowers and uniformly green leaves.
Beige-flowered form; uniformly green leaves.
Fresh green leaves with three-petalled flower above the centre of the leaves.
Dark red flowers and uniformly green leaves.
Cream or white three-petalled flowers in the centre of three leaves.
Large, white, three-petalled flowers above the three green leaflets.
Rare double-flowered form with masses of white petals above three leaves.
Maroon-spotted leaves and large, upright, deep maroon flowers.
Three-petalled pale yellow, occasionally bronze, flowers above mottled leaves.
Deep red, rounded flowers with recurved petals above three mottled leaves.
White or pink flowers spotted pink inside; a small member of the genus.
Deep red long-petalled flowers at centres of three mottled leaves.
Flowers with deep red, recurved petals, scented.