On Mon, 8 May 2006 23:35:39 EDT Antennaria@aol.com wrote: > Close by is T. decipiens. Equally beautiful foliage >with intense mottling, > the stems reach about 7-8". I provide two photos, >showing two dark red forms, > each with different mottling, and a coppery-olive >flowered form with lighter > mottling. The red forms have no detectable scent when I >sniffed (although, > they had just begun to open), whereas the coppery-olive >flowered form had a > strong yet hard to pinpoint aroma... sort of sweet yet >at the same time > turpentine-like. Peculiar and intriguing. When you go into a woodland with Trillium decipiens present, and the temperature is up in the 70s and 80s (as it often is in late February and early March when they are flowering in SW Georgia and S Alabama) the scent is amazing. I hadn't pinned it down to color forms as Mark has interestingly done, but the smell of ripe bananas is overpowering. It is great that these Deep South plants are doing so well in MA. Best, John John T Lonsdale PhD 407 Edgewood Drive, Exton, Pennsylvania 19341, USA Home: 610 594 9232 Cell: 484 678 9856 Fax: 801 327 1266 Visit "Edgewood" - The Lonsdale Garden at http://www.edgewoodgardens.net/ USDA Zone 6b