Talk:Trillium chloropetalum

Edibility

"The leaves are edible and considered a delicacy by slugs." ROFL! -phma

Yeah, that needs support to persist. Removed, until and unless. ENeville (talk) 03:07, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Descriptions

For reference, here is Freeman's description of Trillium chloropetalum:

Scapes erect, (25–) 30–60 (–67) cm long, (2.3–) 3.0–3.3 (–4.5) times as long as bracts. Bracts sessile (rarely subsessile), ovate to very broadly ovate, (7.5–) 10–18 (–21) cm long, usually more or less mottled with small brownish splotches, sometimes unmottled, the apices rounded, blunt, or obtuse. Sepals lanceolate, (32–) 38–63 (–70) mm long, divergent or divergent-spreading, the apices acute to obtuse or blunt-rounded. Petals oblanceolate, varying from linear-oblanceolate to obovate, (50–) 65–90 (–110) mm long, erect, pale greenish yellow, greenish bronze, and purplish green to dark purple, sometimes pale yellow only at the base in var. chloropetalum and ranging from white to garnet- or red-purple in var. giganteum, basally cuneate, the apices obtuse, rounded, acute, or blunt. Stamens erect, (15–) 18–30 (–35) mm long; filaments relatively thick, (3–) 3.5–5 (–6) mm long, purple; anther sacs introrse on purple flattened connectives (pollen yellow to brownish); connectives prolonged (0.5–) 1.0–1.5 mm into rounded-acute or obtuse projections. Carpels usually ca. 1/2 as tall as stamens; ovary ovoid, (5–) 6–9 (–13) mm long, purple, more or less 6-angled; stigmas oblong-subulate, (3–) 4–7 (–10) mm long, divergent-erect, purple, straight, usually truncate. Flowers with pleasant rose-like (or sometimes more spicy) odor. Berry broadly ovoid, obscurely 6-angled above middle.

For comparison, here is Case's description of the same species:

Stem erect, robust 2–6.5 dm tall (often taller in cultivation). Leaves sessile (narrowing of leaf blade may give leaf a subsessile appearance), broadly ovate, 7–17.6 cm long, 7.4–17.7 cm wide, leaf tip obtuse-rounded, densely to weakly mottled in dark brown-green, var. chloropetalum more densely so, its leaf also with a bronze metallic overtone when young; blotching becoming more obscure to absent as leaf matures. Sepals lanceolate, 35–65 mm long, 7–12 mm wide, apex obtusely rounded. Petals somewhat variable in shape, but cuneate at base, apex variably acute to almost truncate, oblanceolate to obovate, 4.5–9.5 cm long, 1.5–2.3 cm wide, greenish-white, bronze, liver-brown, purplish, dark purple-red, pink, clear white, or white with dark pink veining. Stamens erect, 17–26 mm long; filament widest at base, about 4 mm long; anther sacs introrse; connectives purple, prolonged about 1 mm beyond anther sac. Ovary ovoid, 6–12 mm tall, 6-angled, purple; stigmas thickened basally, divergent or erect. Flower odor rose-like (according to most authors); "sometimes more spicy" (Freeman 1975). Fruit purple, ovoid, obscurely 6-angled.