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Hosta 'Janet'
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  This medium size (17 inches high) plant is a sport of H. 'Fortunei' and has smooth textured foliage with average substance. It bears
pale lavender flowers that bloom from late July into August. This
cultivar was registered by
Russ O'Harra of Iowa in 1981.
According to
The Hostapedia by Mark Zilis (2009), "Over the years I've noticed that
specimens of 'Janet' vary a bit. In the 1980s, most had fairly
narrow, medium green margins, but now many exhibit much wider,
darker green margins. The latter group may just be the effect of
good, fertile growing conditions, but some probably could be
classified as wider-margined sports...a smaller version of
'Gold Standard' with
thinner green margins."
An article about leaf color change by Warren I. Pollock in
The
Hosta Journal (1991 Vol. 22 No. 1) cites an extract from
The Genus Hosta by W. George Schmid on seasonal changes in hosta leaf
colors:
| Viridescence |
Emerging with yellow or whitish
color that ultimately become increasingly green. An example is
H. 'Fortunei Albopicta' whose green-bordered leaves have a
beautiful, bright yellow-colored center in the spring that turns to
green by midseason. |
| Partial Viridescence |
Emerging with yellow or whitish
color that turns to chartreuse (yellowish green), sometimes a dark
chartreuse. One example is H. 'Kabitan'; two others are 'Golden
Scepter'...and the center leaf coloring of 'Golden
Tiara'. |
| Lutescence |
Emerging green or chartreuse and
turning yellow or whitish yellow. The coloring of leaf centers
of 'Gold Standard'. ..is an example. |
| Albescence |
Yellow, yellowish green or green
areas that turn to near white. Examples are the center leaf
coloring of 'Janet'...and the margins of 'Antioch'...and H. ventricosa 'Aureomarginata'. |
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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
plants listed but then, their opinions are based on visual observations and interpretations. |
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 H. 'Janet' and
H. 'Gold
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1985 #20
1990 #22 |
1991 #28
1993 #25 |
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 Looks
like the specimen shown above has begun to revert
back to the green H. 'Fortunei'-type
of hosta.
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