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ID for this Hosta

6 years ago

It says wavy on the pot. The other hostas at this nursery had names I recognized but I haven't heard of wavy. I did like how it looks so I bought it. It has all different patterns of variegation on the leaves. Can anyone ID this?





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  • 6 years ago
    last modified: 6 years ago

    I think this could be whirlwind.......not sure, your hosta has a pretty open leaf structure whereas Whirlwind is more twisty.


    your second pic of the leaf made me think Night Before Christmas, but, not sure


    This opens much more during the summer...some my hostas are still in pips.

  • 6 years ago

    From last summer



  • 6 years ago

    I think it is Undulata or possibly Undulata Univittata.

  • 6 years ago
    last modified: 6 years ago

    The pattern on the leaves is so different from one leaf to the next.

  • 6 years ago
    last modified: 6 years ago

    I agree with peren.all.

    bkay

  • 6 years ago

    Undulata does mean wavy.

  • 6 years ago
    last modified: 6 years ago

    I agree with bkay that the photos look like different hostas. I was pretty sure it wasn’t Whirlwind, but the striping on the top leaves, made me guess. The second pic does look like NBC. But bkay the pic with the NBC stick is mine.

  • 6 years ago

    Yep, Undulata Univittata. I've seen both types of leaves on the same plant.


  • 6 years ago

    Thank you all for the Id. I hope to get her in the ground today when it dries up a little. Steve-When it matures do the differing patterns in the leaves settle down?

  • 6 years ago
    last modified: 6 years ago

    Your 'Undulata' hosta is viridescent. It's turning green. This sometimes begins with the white veins turning green. Other times it starts with the white areas turning lime green. Sometimes new leaves will appear with the white center narrower, as I suspect has happened with your plant. Or new buds may produce plain green leaves. I guess when that happens it's reversion, not viridescence.

    I have a ton of these. To keep them white, I have to do my due diligence every spring. I look for leaves that aren't white as they should be, and I remove the buds that produced those leaves - if I have time and the will. These no-longer-white plants go either in the compost pile, or I plant them in a "parking lot" area out of sight to see what they do through the season and how they come back next season before deciding they are not worth keeping.

    I love this hosta's whiteness, and its vigor. It doesn't set seed, but it does produce new buds fast, and I love that too.

    frankielynnsie, take a look at this webpage for some in-depth info on this plant and its variants. I think you will find yours there. https://www.gardenia.net/plant/hosta-undulata-wavy-plantain-lily

    Here's an image of a batch of mine from this season. I think of the little ones as my "little white twirlies" and the larger plants hiding up above in this photo, the ones with the fatter leaves, as my "big twirlies."


    Here's a bit of frost damage on one of the little ones.


    All that white in full sun will sometimes burn out a bit in the heat of July/August here in MA. But since these plants are not being enjoyed as specimens in my garden but as components in big textured white-ish areas, the burned out centers don't really matter. There are so many plants that the burned parts simply don't show up.

    They never stay white all summer. There just isn't enough green to sustain them. Here's what they look like at the end of the summer when all have gone viridescent and I've stopped picking off the leaves in order to give them some photosynthesis time. These are the same 'little white twirlies' as above.

    ss

  • 6 years ago

    I like your name for them. "Twirlies"