This cultivar is a sport of H. 'Blue
Mouse Ears' which was registered in 2010 by
Danny Van Eechaute of
Belgium.
The slightly blue-green foliage has a medium blue-green
colored marginal variegation. A slow growing, miniature
size (5 inches high by 10 inches wide) hosta, it has
leaves which are slightly cupped and broadly ovate to nearly round in shape. In July, it bears clusters of
bell-shaped pale
purple flowers.
Warren I. Pollock
wrote comments about the many sports of H. 'Blue Mouse Ears' (which he termed
BME) in
The
Hosta Journal (2012 Vol. 43 No. 2). He stated, "In 2010,
Danny Van Eechaute registered 'Mystic Mouse'. Leaves have two shades of
blue-green, with the leaf center being somewhat lighter than the margin."
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