{"id":20471,"date":"2017-05-15T07:36:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T14:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=20471"},"modified":"2017-05-15T10:12:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T17:12:51","slug":"purple-trillium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=20471","title":{"rendered":"Purple trillium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Trillium is an early-spring flower of the deep forest, which\u00a0is based on the number three: It has three leaves, three sepals, and three petals. Our local trillium is known variously as the Western Trillium, the White Trillium, and the <em>Trillium ovatum<\/em> (for\u00a0<em>ov\u014d<\/em> meaning to\u00a0rejoice or applaud, as in <em>ovation<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Most trillium petals are whitish, as one\u00a0name for the flower suggests. But, now and then one sees pinkish or even markedly purple petals. These are just the\u00a0white petals that have turned this colour as a result of anthocyanins.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Anthocyanins are pigments that provide the characteristic colour of\u00a0red grapes, cabbages and beets. However, anthocyanins are also antioxidants and some\u00a0plants make them to deal with\u00a0the stress of either cold (T &lt; 10 \u00b0C) or aging. It seems that the\u00a0purple of the trillium petals is just a side effect of a\u00a0device\u00a0to protect plant tissues.<\/p>\n<p>A whitish White Trillium.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20473\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/trillium170512s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A purplish White Trillium.\u00a0<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20472\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/trillium170514s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Trillium is an early-spring flower of the deep forest, which\u00a0is based on the number three: It has three leaves, three sepals, and three petals. Our local trillium is known variously as the Western Trillium, the White Trillium, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=20471\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20471"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20487,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20471\/revisions\/20487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}