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| Hosta | Sails Ho |
| Status | registered |
| Originator(s) | Ran Lydell 1995 |
| Origin | 'Krossa Regal' sport |
| Size category | |
| Plant height x width | 30x60 cm (12x24 in.) |
| Leaf length x width | 18x11 cm (7x4 in.) |
| Vein pairs | 8-9 |
| Leaf color | (white>greenish-white),green edge |
| Variegation | medio, viridescent |
| Leaf | heavy, very twisted, wavy |
| Petiole | |
| Scape | blue-green |
| Scape height | 75 cm (30 in.) |
| Flower | bell |
| Flower length | 4.5 cm (1.8 in.) |
| Fragrant | |
| Flowering period | July - August |
| Fertile | no |
| Pod | |
| Ploidy | |
| Patents | |
| Info | Streaked breeder:* Sterile? Ran Lydell's 'Sails Ho' is a plant that always gets the star treatment first in the spring. When most hostas are just a promise of the colors they will soon show, 'Sails Ho' is the prettiest thing in the garden when the hostas are unfurling. 'Sails Ho' is a stable form of a streaked 'Krossa Regal' found by Pete Ruh. Rarely offered by any nurseries. It forms a fairly large plant that's about 2/3 the size of 'Krossa Regal'. Soon after unfurling the glorious nearly pure white centers slowly begin to be covered in tiny specks of green like the reverse of a snowfall as the spring wears on. |
| Sports | 'Dress White' sport/wg 'Yellow Sails' sport/os |
| Progeny | |