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						 This sport of H. 'Halcyon' was registered by
				Peter Ruh of Ohio in 2005 on 
			behalf of the originator, 
			Roger and Ann Bowden of 
				Devon,   
				England . The medium size 
			(18 inches high by 36 inches wide) plant has shiny, dark green 
				foliage with thick substance. It bears pale lavender flowers in 
				late July. This cultivar is part of the "Devon 
				Series" of hostas. 
						 
				 According to
				
							The Hostapedia by Mark Zilis (2009), "...appears identical to 'Valerie's Vanity', 'Canadian 
				Shield', and the other green leaved sports of 'Halcyon'." 
			
			The New Encyclopedia of Hostas by
				Diana 
				Grenfell (2009) states: "Lovely in a cream stone container. Still the best-selling 
			green-leaved hosta in Europe...Purple-dotted, dark green scapes." 
			  
			Warren I. Pollock in 
			The 
				Hosta Journal (1994 Vol. 25 No. 2) states "H. 
			'Devon Green', a sport of blue-leaved 'Halcyon', has dark green 
			leaves of the same distinct shape and characteristics as its parent. 
			The petioles are purple spotted...H. 'Peridot' 
			is a tissue culture sport of 'Halcyon' with dark-green, glossy 
			leaves, described as being a little smaller than those of 
			'Halcyon'...Are 'Peridot' and 'Devon Green' the same hosta or 
			sufficiently similar to be considered the same cultivar?...I'd like 
			to see side-by-side trials." 
						
						 An article about H. 'Canadian Shield', H. 'Devon Green', H. 'Peridot' and H. 
'Valerie's Vanity' by Warren I. Pollock in 
			The 
				Hosta Journal (1997 Vol. 28 No. 1) states that, "These 
four hostas are mutations of 'Halcyon',  arguably the best of the late 
Eric 
Smith's blue-leaved Tardiana  Group...Are all four cultivars the same? I haven't 
seen any evidence they are different." 
				From 
				The 
				Hosta Journal,  (2002 Vol. 33 No. 2),   "...'Halcyon', 
			'Devon Green' and 'June'...are the 
			same hosta but with different-colored leaves." An article about the Halcyon Group by
Peter Cross in 
			The 
				Hosta Journal (2004 Vol. 35 No.2) says, "...'Halcyon'  is 
a first-generation member (TF 1 × 7) of the legendary 
Tardiana Group of hostas, 
which consists of hybrids of 'Tardiflora' × H. 'Elegans',  produced 
in England by Eric Smith,  the master hybridizer of blue hostas, in the 
1960s....Traditionally, sporting involves the cells in a section of a leaf 
(either margin or center) changing color...These sports simply lack the wax 
coating that makes the hosta leaves appear blue...I find it impossible to see 
any differences between these green sports..." Cross lists the all-green sports 
of 'Halcyon'  including: 
			
	
	
		
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						 An article by
			
			Warren I. Pollack in 
			The 
				Hosta Journal  (2020 Vol. 51 No. 1) titled 
			Doppelgänger Hostas: Fancy Name for 
			Look-alike Hostas, included a long list of hostas  
			which various hostaphiles, published articles or other sources have 
			indicated "look" the same. Some of these are, in fact, the same 
			plant with two or more different names. Others are hostas that vary 
			in some minor trait which is not immediately discernable to the 
			casual observer such as seasonal color variations, bloom traits, ploidy, etc. So, as Warren mentions, hostaphiles may differ as to the 
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			   H. 'Canadian 
			Shield', H.
								'Devon Green', H. 'Grünspecht', H. 'Kryptonite', H. 'Peridot' and
								H. 'Vallerie's 
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