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Trillium (post #16546)

ewasgarden on Mon, 03/22/2010 - 18:05
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Explain why this flower is named trillium

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Trillium is derived from a (post #16546, reply #1 of 4)

by the country gardener in reply to ewasgarden [original] on Tue, 03/23/2010 - 18:32

Trillium is derived from a combination of 'tri' and 'illium'. Illium is the latin for whorl and tri is latin for three, so the name is a reference to the whorl of three leaves on the plant.  

Marty

"The plants have been good to us."  Lester Hawkins

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Thanks for answering, Marty. (post #16546, reply #2 of 4)

by SteveA in reply to the country gardener [original] on Thu, 03/25/2010 - 07:33

Thanks for answering, Marty. I was going to say that it was named in honor of some mineral featured in an episode of Star Trek.

--Steve Aitken, Editor, Fine Gardening
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no, no no, Steve, that;s (post #16546, reply #3 of 4)

by the country gardener in reply to SteveA [original] on Thu, 03/25/2010 - 21:40

no, no no, Steve, that;s Tribles. Thats "tri" for three and "bles" is a future morph of "blech", meaning these things are triply horrible. :-)
 

Marty

"The plants have been good to us."  Lester Hawkins

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Back to the plant.... (post #16546, reply #4 of 4)

by Noel-in-England in reply to the country gardener [original] on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 10:19

Trillium has ALL their parts - yes ALL their parts  (o.k. then  - not their roots ) - in groups of three.

Leaves, petals and sepals.