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TRILLIUM SPECIES and their SMELL

Albidum                                         Rose like scent

Angustipetalum                             Nasty spicy-musty odour

Apetalon

Cernuum

Chloropetalum                                 Rose like scent

Cuneatum                                           Pleasant spicy or musty scent like vinegar others have                                                        a sweet fermenting fruit smell.

Decipiens

Decumbens                                       Strong carrion odour

Discolor                                                Spicey-fragrant, slightly pungent (almost ammonical)

Erectum                                              Wet-dog smell

Flexipes

Foetidissimum                                   Strong, nearly stifling, carrion smell

Govanianum

Gracile                                                Odour like morel fungus ( Morchella)

Grandiflorum

Kamtschaticum

Kurabayashii                                    Spicy odour fetid with age

Lancifolium

Ludovicianum                                   Musty carrion odour (Sweet pleasant smell by David                                                         Mellard)

Luteum                                                Strong, penetrating, lemon-oil scent

Maculatum                                         Delicate, spicey, banana like scent

Nivale                                                 Organic fruity pleasant smell, rather like honey.

Ovatum

Parviflorum                                        Clove like scent. Fragrence heavenly somewhat like                                                              Arbutus.

Persistens

Petiolatum

Pusillum

Recurvatum

Reliquum                                           Foetid smell

Rivale

Rugelii

Sessile                                              Spicy pungent smell

Simile                                               Those in the Smokies has a scent of wet dog or egg                                                             whites.

Smallii

Stamineum                                       Strong carrion odour, extremely foetid

Sulcatum                                          Fragrance of fresh fungus

Tschonoski

Underwoodii                                   Foetid carrion like odour

Undulatum

Vaseyi

Viride                                                 Scent of rotten apples

Viridescens                                       Inoffensive musty-spicy odour