Originated by
Joanna
Kovalcsik of Michigan and registered by her in
2022,
this cultivar a seedling of H. 'Xanadu
Virginia Mary' ×
H. 'Red
Dragon'. It is a medium size hosta about 17 inches
high by 41 inches wide with
medium green foliage and dark red petioles. The leaves are
heavily rippled at the margins and come to a pointed tip
which bends downward. They are described as "...lightly
twisted, folded and wavy overall with light corrugation
on mature leaves. Somewhat pinched at midrib and pointed
tips that sometimes twist. Vigorous grower..."
Pale lavender flowers with purple veins and a bright
purple center vein are surrounded by white-purple
splotches as weather cools. The bloom from late August
into September on scapes 20 to 37 inches tall. Pod-set
is rare but the seeds found in the purple black pods are
viable. The
registration materials state: "Long twisting
lightly rippled green leaves are lifted to the breeze on
scarlet petioles. Dark scapes, purple-splashed bracts
and pale lavender tepals each with a bright purple
central vein create a striking summer display...Narrow &
deeply concave petioles are brilliant red in spring
darkening to purple later. Coloration extends up the
back mid-rib of each leaf.." |