Hosta | Purple Verticulated Elf |
Status | registered |
Originator(s) | Herb Benedict 2003 |
Origin | "seedling of F6 seedling of 'Dorset Blue'" selfed |
Size category | small |
Plant height x width | 28x58 cm (11x23 in.) |
Leaf length x width | 20x12 cm (8x5 in.) |
Vein pairs | 8-9 |
Leaf color | blue |
Variegation | |
Leaf | thick, wavy edge, pointed, wedge |
Petiole | |
Scape | blue-green |
Scape height | 30 cm (12 in.) |
Flower | lavender blue,bell |
Flower length | |
Fragrant | |
Flowering period | July - August |
Fertile | yes |
Pod | dark green |
Ploidy | |
Patents | |
Info | One of Herb's very best blues. Leaves emerge with a purple cast. Flowers clustered in tiered whorls up scape (varies). This small blue forms a clump 8" x 20" of some of the most intensely blue foliage I have seen, Herb deemed it 'purple' blue. It is Herb's second to last generation (TF6B) of blues from H. 'Dorset Blue' and parent of even more incredibly purple miniature kids: H. 'Amethyst Chip' and H. 'Amethyst Facets' and soon to be registered H. 'Purple Perfection'. It is only grown in a handful of private gardens and has not nor is in mass production. |
Sports | |
Progeny | 'Amethyst Chip' selfed 'Amethyst Facet' selfed 'Best Friend' = 'Astral Bliss' x PP 'Cosmic Beer Brat' = 'Beer Belly Blues' x PP 'Cosmic Little Elf' = 'Dorset Clown' x PP 'Country Dreaming' = PP x (x 'Northern Heritage') 'Dragonfly Wings' = 'Misty May' x PP 'Evening Blush' = 'Hideko Tajima' x PP 'Golden Heron' seedling 'Pixie Moonstone' = 'Teeny-weeny Bikini' x PP 'Purple Perfection' seedling 'Silver Tongued Devil' = 'Astral Bliss' x PP 'Slim and Trim' seedling 'Sterling Medallion' = ('Frosted Dimples' x 'Sea Frolic') x PP 'Up in Smoke' = PP x 'Smoke Signals' |