This small size (7 inches
high by 20 inches wide) cultivar was
registered in 1987 by
Peter Ruh of Ohio on behalf of the originator,
David Stone of Connecticut. It has blue-green foliage that is shiny
on top. Lavender flowers bloom from late June into July.
Named for
Pauline Banyai's father's nursery.
In
The
Hosta Journal (1992 Vol. 23 No. 1) there is an
article by Peter Ruh about the so-called David Stone Medium or Miniature hostas which went by a numbering system that
started with
DSM. This cultivar was called DSM #16 and
was described as "Medium to small, leaves
spade-shaped, deep blue-green, glossy and slightly
waved, mounds, flowers lavender, bunches at top of the
scape."
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