A seedling of
Hosta
longipes hypoglauca,
this is a non-registered cultivar from
Dr. Ralph (Herb) Benedict of Michigan. It forms a small size mound of green foliage with purple
petioles. According to
The Hostapedia by Mark Zilis (2009), "Van
Wade of Wade and Gatton Nursery (Closed 2019) of Ohio found this to have the reddest petioles in a
batch of twenty seedlings from Herb Benedict."
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