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A large growing species with creamy flowers on a distinct pedicel. Paul Christian's 'Rare Plants' catalogue says: "A relative of cernuum with broad diamond-shaped leaves and a thickly-textured, broad-petalled, white, hanging turkscap flower each with a maroon nose, this colouration spreading into the centre of the flower." Writing in 'The Plantsman' in 1990, Robert Mitchell says: "The plant was first found by Rugel in 1841 in North Carolina and this specimen, at the British Museum (Natural History), is the type specimen. Barksdale (1937) located colonies of this species in the type locality, finding them to have fairly constant features, but varying greatly in plant size. It grows in slightly acid neutral soils in moist woodlands near to streams or in rich soils above the flood plain. In cultivation it is frequently confused with Trillium cernuum and, like this species, it is relatively easy to grow." |
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| 7th May 2016 | ||