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						 Originated by
						Joanna 
				Kovalcsik of Michigan and registered by her in
						2019, 
						this cultivar is a seedling of H. 'Red 
						Dragon' × 
						H. 'Mikawa-no-yuki'. 
						It is a large size plant about 21 inches high by 40 
						inches wide with medium green colored foliage. The flat 
						leaves are slightly shiny on top, slightly rippled, 
						deeply veined and ovate in shape with a cordate base. 
						Its petioles have very dark plum-colored speckles at the 
						base. The medium violet flowers with "leopard-like" 
						spots and translucent margins on alternate tepals. On 
						the inside, the tepals are white with lavender colored 
						stripes and heavy reddish speckles on all six tepals. 
						Flowers bloom from late August into September on 
						reddish-plum colored scapes about 28 to 29 inches tall. 
						This cultivar bears viable seeds in green pods with 
						purple striping. The 
						registration materials state: "...Purple-speckled 
						flowers on dark plum-colored scapes with 
						raspberry-tinted bracts early. Vase-shaped with plum-red 
						speckled petioles, good substance, deeply impressed 
						veins and tips that sometimes twist slightly. One of the 
						larger red-petioled hostas."  This 
						cultivar came from the same cross as H. 'Pebble 
						Creek Crackerjacks'.
 
						
				
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