Re: Double Bloodroot

It could well be, Bill. I think I read this in Graham Rice's Hardy 
Perennials, but it's been a while. I have looked at a double bloodroot for 
sale at a nursery now that I think back and it seemed to be missing the 
necessary reproductive parts.
I have also heard that in the case of vegetative reproduction (division, 
cuttings, etc) the plants will gradually lose vigour. That I got from a book 
on pinks, when they were discussing trying to keep named strains going. So 
who really knows?  Not me.

Bob Campbell


>From: Blee811@aol.com
>Reply-To: perennials@mallorn.com
>To: perennials@mallorn.com
>Subject: Re: Double Bloodroot
>Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 08:13:16 EDT
>
>In a message dated 6/8/00 7:18:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>llebpmac_bob@hotmail.com writes:
>
><< I remember
>  reading somewhere that all the existing specimens of double bloodroot 
>come
>  from one plant that was found in the wild and have been produced
>  vegitatively.
>   >>
>I wonder if that is true for the gentleman in the Detroit area, Bob.  I've
>drooled over the double trilliums in the Case book, but I know that there's 
>a
>guy in the Pittsburgh area who has a planting of double trillium from one 
>he
>found in the wild.  Perhaps the Detroit 'Multiplex' bloodroot was also a
>"found" plant rather than progeny of the original, accounting for its 
>vigor.
>Bill Lee

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