Hosta | Leather Sheen |
Status | registered |
Originator(s) | Mark Zilis/Doug Lohman 1988 |
Origin | 'Sum and Substance' x venusta |
Size category | small - medium |
Plant height x width | 36x76 cm (14x30 in.) |
Leaf length x width | 18x8 cm (7x3 in.) |
Vein pairs | 6,10 |
Leaf color | dark green |
Variegation | |
Leaf | glossy, heavy |
Petiole | |
Scape | |
Scape height | 76 cm (30 in.) |
Flower | lavender,bell |
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Fragrant | |
Flowering period | July |
Fertile | |
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Patents | |
Info | Glossy, dark green, ovate-cordate, flat leaves, 7" x 3". 30" Scapes with lavender flowers. Shiny dark green leaves make a neat clump, good substance; lavender flowers. Very dark, shiny green leaves form a low mound. Lavender flowers. Small mound of very dark, shiny foliage of good substance. One of the darkest green leaf colors of any hosta. Plant 14" x 30". The lance-shaped, extremely dark green leaves have a strikingly shiny finish. Substance is thick as leather. Lavender flowers. Small mound of thick substance, very shiny deep green foliage. Flowers light purple. Glossy, dark spinach-green; thick, long, pointed; red-dotted petioles. |
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Progeny | 'Riviera Sunset' = 'Beatrice' x PP 'Singularity' = 'Halcyon' x PP 'Warwick Sheen' = 'Christmas Tree' x PP |