According to
The Hostapedia by Mark Zilis (2009), "H. 'White Beauty' = H. 'Undulata
Albomarginata'
Another source indicates that
Jan
van den Top of the Netherlands originated this non-registered cultivar in 2002 and
it is a sport
of H. 'Undulata Albomarginata'. This medium size (18 inches high by 36 inches
wide) plant has pale
lavender flowers with a mid-petal stripe in July. The flowers are
sterile so they do not develop seeds.
An article about H. 'Undulata' and its origins by
Bob Solberg in
The
Hosta Journal (1996 Vol. 27 No. 1) states that, "H. 'Undulata
Albomarginata' is an interspecific hybrid of
H. sieboldii x
H. montana but of
different individual parentage than H. 'Undulata'. It was probably sold to
Thomas Hogg in 1875 in Yokohama, Japan. It is not a sport of H. 'Undulata' or H.
'Undulata
Erromena', the white-edged sport of the latter being H. 'See
Saw'...While the data presented here strongly support these conclusions, they do
not provide absolute proof. DNA testing of these cultivars would prove very
interesting."
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