Very pretty!

The yellow 'sprout' is either a reversion or sport.

Me too!

Send it to me and I'll figure it out and maybe get back to you......

If you don't get an answer from someone here, try the hosta forum at perennialnursery.com. Then I would try Josh Speece at In The Country Hosta and Gifts. He's really good at IDs.

bk

That is a super gorgeous hosta!!! And a golden sport as a bonus.... you really scored with this one. Hope someone recognizes it. Wow!

I hope you bought it. The bigger two don't even look exactly alike.

We there other hostas in the same pots, from the same grower, in the nursery? Can you ask the nursery owner/manager what he ordered? That might give you a clue. It looks like an unstable one that is trying to find itself. It will probably settle out. Or not. ;-) Hostas often sport, and the tissue culture process hastens that process. The tc growers don't always cull those from the main batch, so they sneak thru the cracks. I too, hope you got it. You might have a whole new hosta sport that you can name. Grow it for a few years to see how it stabilizes. FUN!

-Babka

Well, I didn't buy it when I took the pics (confession: I don't really like hostas with a lot of white/cream on them), but all the comments here convinced me to go back for it. Lucky for me, it was still there.

In the few days since I saw it last, I think the lighter parts have become slightly more greenish, enough in my eyes to pass the "cream" threshold to a much more appealing colour. Here is what it looks like now, sheltered from the hail beside Dancing Queen:

The leaf pattern is appealing and i love how rougose it is.

Let us know if you find a name for it.

bk

*checks mailbox*

I'm not normally a jealous person, but I admit that I'm feeling a little green right now, lol. I'm glad you went back and got it.

So glad you went back and got it! Someone will figure it out, eventually.

someone needs to figure it out...so I can start looking for one of the same

It looks like montana aureomarginata. They often get random streaks in them like that. The rogosity/corrugation you are seeing isn't a normal part of the plant and is probably from drought or cold damage to the eyes over the winter, since it is only on a couple of the outer leaves and not entirely even. The white/cream sport will likely die off.

Ctopher, would the cream sport stand a better chance of surviving being exposed to lots of sun? It may scorch but wouldn't it also gain some vigour? I understand the theory behind lack of green/chlorophyll etc. but am curious just the same. Thanks. Jo

Montana aureomarginata looks totally plausible! At least from the pics I've seen. The only difference I see is that this mystery hosta seems to have had white/cream margins which are becoming pale greenish yellow...and I have seen emerging MA pics which seem to have bright yellow margins: http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/2016590/the-poll-what-a-great-thing-for-m-aureomarginata

Does MA have yellow or white margins when it emerges?

Also, the sport on my plant is the same colour as the margins. If it eventually becomes gold, shouldn't it be viable?

Right Hand to God, I think it looks like an unsettled TC of Bridal Falls .......

However, I'm inclined to bow out, since Chris already posted.

His 20+ years of experience beats my humble 'hobby-ing' any day. :)

Either way, good you went back for it as it's got the potential to be a stunner !

Best,

Ludi

Sorry, not Montana AureoMarginata by any chance. Looks like a tc sport that is growing very well.

Wait 3-4 weeks on the gold sport, let it grow a few more leaves and then divide off and keep in some light shade until it re-establishes itself. May stabilize or may not.

I have not seen a hosta like that before with the puckering, leaf shape and markings, thus why I said tc sport.

bruce

OK, Bruce, a tc sport of "what?" That is why I suggested that the OP see what other hostas were in the nursery in the same type pots with similar labels, and from the same grower. That could narrow the choices down. If the nursery ordered x number of these and those, the sported tc could be narrowed down to some named hostas. I have had any number of gold (yellow in the old days) shoots show up on plants that simply disappeared. TC's these days produce a lot of surprises, and I hope Teuth will watch this one carefully this year and let us know how it progresses.

-Babka

Beautiful find whatever it is!

OK, I stopped by the nursery again today to check what other kinds of hosta are there. They had this one tagged as MA:

- Elegans

- Francee

- Ann Kulpa

- June

- Wide Brim

- Sum and Substance

Nothing tagged or untagged resembled Mystery Hosta at all.

It came in a square pink pot. Any other hostas in square pink pots? Your list could be narrowed down that way. Those would be the from the same grower and might give you a clue as to what they shipped. What it boils down to is that you will need to grow it for a while and see how it settles out. We ALL want to know!!!

-Babka

*looks out window*

First it is not the leaf shape of MA, so this is a mis-labeled plant of something that is very striking in its appearance. If the entire batch is the same then they got the wrong ID in the tc/nursery that planted them in pots.

Still a beauty and worth holding on to as the mystery hosta.

Does it remind anyone else of Regal Splendor?

Regal Splendor is blue. This one isn't. Anybody count veins?

-Babka

Babka, there weren't any other hosta in square pots. The pot is falling apart... maybe it didn't come from the grower in that pot.

I'll post more pics as it progresses. I think it's still getting greener.

Mikgag I will send it by owl post ;)

Reminds me of Satisfaction :)

Take another pic :) should looks different now.

Even the cat wants it

Could it be a mutant of Goodness Gracious? I just looked at my own photos to compare...hmmm. Those wide margins. Mine is still new so I'm not sure whether GG's leaves get wider as it matures. Just a stab in the dark.

"Even the cat wants it". LOL!

Teuth, seems you are stumping a lot of the experts and enthusiasts. I posted the pics of your mystery plant on my Facebook page asking FB friends if they could I.D. it, and here are the responses from Jeff Miller, owner of Land Of The Giants hosta farm, and Don Dean, well-known hosta hybridizer and current president of the American Hosta Society:

The pictures struck a cord with me and it looked like something I had seen on the HL.

H. montana moonshine

It was the similarities in color and wide margin that did it.

Could it be that it is a tc sport of MA.

Just a thought.

Dave

*sigh*

Update with flowers...will they open, or are they stuck like that :D