A sport of H. 'Frances Williams',
this cultivar of unidentified origin ation was registered by
Mark Zilis of Illinois in 2010. It is a large size (26 inches high
by 48 inches wide) hosta with medium blue-green foliage with golden yellow
marginal variegation. The center turns medium green by mid-summer.
The leaves
are flat, moderately corrugated, broadly ovate, slightly wavy and have a glaucous
bloom on top. Its near white flowers bloom in mid-June into July. Like many hostas of this type, this cultivar may suffer spring desiccation burn.
According to
The Hostapedia by Mark Zilis (2009), this cultivar was "...introduced by
Paul Aden
before 1981; have not been able to distinguish it from
'Frances Williams'."
In the past, this cultivar was credited to
Paul Aden of New York but its status has been changed to "unidentified origin " recently.
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An article by
Warren I. Pollack in
The
Hosta Journal (2020 Vol. 51 No. 1) titled
Doppelgänger Hostas: Fancy Name for
Look-alike Hostas, included a long list of hostas
which various hostaphiles, published articles or other sources have
indicated "look" the same. Some of these are, in fact, the same
plant with two or more different names. Others are hostas that vary
in some minor trait which is not immediately discernable to the
casual observer such as seasonal color variations, bloom traits, ploidy, etc. So, as Warren mentions, hostaphiles may differ as to the
plants listed but then, their opinions are based on visual observations and interpretations. |
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H.
'Aurora
Borealis', H. 'Fleeta
Brownell Woodruffe', H. 'Frances
Williams', H. 'Maple
Leaf', H. 'Olive
Bailey Langdon' and
H. 'Samurai'. |
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