If ever in N. GA in Spring at the Hambridge Center visit their Trillium Trail, it has the largest masses of Trillium and other wildflowers i've ever seen. Various kinds of Trillium, May Apples, Ground Iris just cover the forest floor sometimes as far as you can see. Then you also see the occasional jack-in-the-pulpit, soloman's seal, wild ginsing, and other wild flowers. They do a monthly guided wild flower tour, but in April they will do a special spring wild flower guided tour. They're trying to figure out how to commercial grow ginsing, but it's a hard to plase plant and a long-term investment. Also mayapples are used for medicinal purposes, the active ingredient in those are the active ingredient in "Doan's Pills" and now being investigated as a cancer treatment.
So enjoyed this, never saw some of the species shown. The close ups of the flowers are especially appreciated, along with the questions asked, some were also what I was wondering! Omg pig tanks....don’t think any in NJ?! Thank you 🌱
Our parkway along a water canal looks exactly like her environment there. When the wild boar smell the flowers, planted beautifully in the different neighborhoods, they will trot in groups, up to 10 and then roto-till meadows and gardens with their snouts. They eliminate flower and veggie gardens and then snooze off their feast afterwards. There is no predator for them. I have heard that a Jack Russell Terrier is able to chase them away but wild boar have tusks. They will instinctively attack hunters. Good luck Trilliums.
Amy Hyland certainly knows her Trilliums! I had no idea there were so many varieties. Summer, have you come across Suzanne Simard, Prof of Forest Ecology (University of British Columbia)? An interview with her was recently broadcast on the BBC World Service, and it was fascinating. Her primary research over the years has centred on the complex mycorrhizal/tree-root networks below the forest floor, their incredible dynamics & role in tree intercommunication regarding exchange of nutrients & chemical messaging ~ to bolster immunity from pest predation etc.
Hello, Summer Rayne, this is such a lovely plant! This is the first time I've ever seen it! Such a wonderful thing that the Center is doing to ensure it continues on!! Thank you for the tour!!!
Thank you for the wonderful tour, the information about trilliums, and for the opportunity to see people behind the scenes making the conservation happen!
I'm in the rocky mountains, just saw my first trillium the other day, always a happy day! I'm jealous of your variety, we just have just white and purple varieties of T. ovatum. They are harbingers of morels though.
The feral pigs problem is no joke. They have devastated our regional, state and conservation areas in the San Francisco Bay Area. One of the parks allows open hunting most of the year. ( Very disconcerting for a hiker).
Very interesting. Over 45 yeas ago we took a few trilliums from the bush at the farm and put them in Dad's forest floor garden where they have multiplied and still grow today. We should not have taken them I know now.
In its "Native" Habitat sounds like what you have now, with "Natives"! People are what cause the Deer and the Wild Pig to avoid an Area, so likely in the Past these plants followed People! :)
