Trout Lily

• The name derives from the fact that the brown-splotched leaves resemble the colouring of Brook trout.
• They form large colonies of plants of different ages. Young plants are flowerless and have only one leaf, while older plants produce two leaves and a single flower. A plant’s corm has to reach sufficient depths (10 to 20 centimetres below ground) before it will devote energy to making the additional parts.
• It takes a few years for a plant to be mature enough to produce a flower and seeds. Trout lilies have recruited the help of ants, who eat a nutritious appendage attached to each seed and leave the rest to germinate.
  Source: http://www.cwf-fcf.org
  
  April 9th, 2012 
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  April 12th, 2012