Hosta 'Crickett's Mountain Mist'
 

Registered by Crickett Bailey of Vermont in 2017, this large size (24 inches high by 46 inches wide) cultivar is an upright growing sport of H. 'Nancy Gill'. The moderately blue-green leaves have creamy white streaked variegation. Its leaves are nearly round, slightly cupped, wavy and dull on top. The petioles are spotted with red pigment. Pale lavender flowers bloom from mid-July into August on purple scapes about 24 inches tall.

The registration materials state: "...Nearly round blue-green leaves are misted & streaked with cream and white. Purple flower scapes, red spotted petioles and leaf edges that roll up."

According to the 2019 AHS Online Auction webpage, "H. 'Nancy Gill' is a seedling from H. 'Sum and Substance' x H. pycnophylla'. Hybridizing with S&S is difficult because S &S is a triploid (3-3-3) and H. pycnopylla is diploid. Successfully crossing a triploid with a diploid is usually very iffy.

H. 'Nancy Gill' was flow cytometric measured and found to be "almost triploid." It's an "aneuploid"; ploidy is 2.7-2.7-2.7 or 2.8-2.8-2.8. Nevertheless, 'Nancy Gill' acts like triploid S&S. Most likely 'Crickett's Mouintain Mist' has the same ploidy and acts similarly."


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