Study Plan:A review of processes for trillium seed treatments and cleaning.
- Hydrogen Peroxide treatment process.
- Aril removal and seed cleaning process.
- Cold storage and cold treatment processes.
- Inside seed germination process.

Experiment with germination of each.

Study Findings: (In Process).
Pictures are seeds cleaned and treated after 80 days cold treatment.
- Hydrogen Peroxide treatment utilized John Gyer’s process* documented in the 1997 NARGS quarterly.

* “Hydrogen Peroxide Trillium Seed Treatment”, 1997, John Gyer.

Scientific Name: Trillium Flexipes
Common Name(s): Bent Trillium, Bent Wake Robin, White Trillium
Location: Eastern USA
Description: Trillium Flexipes seed. I am experimenting with planting seed that have and have not been:1. cleaned, 2. H2O2 treated, 3. cold treated and 4. hormone treated (see 04RP_03).These experiments were all made with T. flexipes seed. This picture is uncleaned seed. Picture 3 is cleaned and H2O2 treated.

Photograph: Harold Holmes