Don Dean of Minnesota registered this medium size (13 inches high by 42 inches
wide) hybrid of ((H. 'Liberty Bell' × (H. 'Urajiro Hachijo' × H. pychnophylla)) x H. 'Mikawa-no-Yuki') in 2014. Its
medium green foliage has a near white marginal variegation. The
piecrusted leaves are moderately corrugated, deeply wavy, slightly twisted and dull on top. Medium lavender, tubular
flowers with translucent edges bloom in August on red burgundy
scapes. It sets seeds but their viability was undetermined at the time of registration.
Mikiko Lockwood in an article on The Hosta Library titled,
A Little About Japanese Hosta Terms defines the term urajiro as white-backed or white underside.
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