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HostaShelleys

Statusregistered

Originator(s)Eliot Hodgkin/Chris Brickell 1988

OriginJapan:

Size categorymedium

Plant height x width 

Leaf length x width24x8 cm (9x3 in.)

Vein pairs10

Leaf colorgreen,narrow yellow edge

Variegationedge

Leaflanceolate, wavy margin

Petiolepurple

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Info='Shellys' (AHS registration).
='Shelly's' (AHS judges handbook).
Plant reportedly collected in Japan by the late British plantsman Elliot Hodgkin and named by Chris Brickell for his garden.
H. kikutii form or hybrid? Flowers typical H. kikutii.
Has been distributed under the invalid name H. kikutii 'Kifukurin'.

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