Posted by Doug on May 9, 2011, 9:32 am
I took my first trip to the New Jersey Botanical Gardens yesterday.
Beautiful place. I'll have to go back when more of the perennials and
annuals are blooming.
I was walking through the hosta garden and noticed a really cool
looking plant that had no ID tag. (I didn't have my camera so I
couldn't take a picture.) It had large roundish leaves with the flower
stalk growing from the leaf axil. The flower was purple with three
bracts, maybe 2" in diameter.
I tried Googling a bunch of descriptive terms but haven't found
anything resembling it.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Posted by Janet on May 9, 2011, 11:24 am
In article <8ad8afeb-9989-4023-9b51-37cd1d7b7a45
@dr5g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>, dsrmcclure@gmail.com says...
>
> I took my first trip to the New Jersey Botanical Gardens yesterday.
> Beautiful place. I'll have to go back when more of the perennials and
> annuals are blooming.
>
> I was walking through the hosta garden and noticed a really cool
> looking plant that had no ID tag. (I didn't have my camera so I
> couldn't take a picture.) It had large roundish leaves with the flower
> stalk growing from the leaf axil. The flower was purple with three
> bracts, maybe 2" in diameter.
>
> I tried Googling a bunch of descriptive terms but haven't found
> anything resembling it.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks.
trillium ? possibly t foetidissima ?
http://www.trilliums.co.uk/Trillium%20Photographs.htm
Janet
Posted by Doug on May 9, 2011, 1:50 pm
Thanks Janet. It definitely looks like it could be Eructus. The only
thing that I don't remember noticing was if it had the three leaves.
I'll have to take another look when I go back.
Janet wrote:
> In article <8ad8afeb-9989-4023-9b51-37cd1d7b7a45
> @dr5g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>, dsrmcclure@gmail.com says...
> >
> > I took my first trip to the New Jersey Botanical Gardens yesterday.
> > Beautiful place. I'll have to go back when more of the perennials and
> > annuals are blooming.
> >
> > I was walking through the hosta garden and noticed a really cool
> > looking plant that had no ID tag. (I didn't have my camera so I
> > couldn't take a picture.) It had large roundish leaves with the flower
> > stalk growing from the leaf axil. The flower was purple with three
> > bracts, maybe 2" in diameter.
> >
> > I tried Googling a bunch of descriptive terms but haven't found
> > anything resembling it.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks.
> trillium ? possibly t foetidissima ?
> http://www.trilliums.co.uk/Trillium%20Photographs.htm
> Janet
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> I took my first trip to the New Jersey Botanical Gardens yesterday.
> Beautiful place. I'll have to go back when more of the perennials and
> annuals are blooming.
>
> I was walking through the hosta garden and noticed a really cool
> looking plant that had no ID tag. (I didn't have my camera so I
> couldn't take a picture.) It had large roundish leaves with the flower
> stalk growing from the leaf axil. The flower was purple with three
> bracts, maybe 2" in diameter.
>
> I tried Googling a bunch of descriptive terms but haven't found
> anything resembling it.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks.