Registered by
Monty Carlson and
Julie Carlson of Northernair Hostas in Minnesota in
2022, this
cultivar is a seedling of (an
unnamed F2 seedling of H.
longipes latifolia 'Urajiro Hachigo' × an unnamed
seedling of
H. 'Potomac Pride') ×
(H. longipes latifolia 'Urajiro Hachigo' ×
H. 'Potomac Pride'). (**For clarity sake, the hostas in
Green are the background of the unnamed pod parent
and the ones in Maroon
are the background of the unnamed pollen parent of this cultivar.)
This is a large size
hosta about 20 inches high by 55 inches wide with
blue-green foliage. The broadly ovate leaves are
slightly cupped, moderately twisted, moderately folded,
moderately corrugated and "deeply wavy with big bumps
overall". Deep purple flowers with white stripes on the
inside bloom from mid-July into August on scapes 19 to
24 inches tall followed by viable seeds.
The registration
materials state: "Big, blue and covered with wrinkles,
crinkles, puckers, waves, folds and ripples."
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