=H. tardiflora 'Tortifrons'.
The Autumn Wind Hosta. Corkscrew leaves, thick, erect, rigid, leathery and shiny. Each leaf is different. Dark green with the petiole a part of the leaf. Purple dotted scapes with purple flowers.
This is the curious twisted-leaf hosta that is apparently a form of the very late-blooming tardiflora; it blooms at the same time and the flowers are the same. It is a very nice woodland or rock garden plant with tough, thick, glossy leaves. The amount of twisting of the leaf varies; ours are most twisty when they have only a little shade and not too much fertilizer. Easy but slow to divide.
Thick dark green corkscrew leaves, a very interesting plant that needs to be grown in lots of sun to get the leaves to corkscrew; blooms extremely late (late October here) w/ lavender flowers.
Originally introduced in commerce as a species, but apparently there are no wild populations and, according to Schmid, it appears to be a cultivar from H. tardiflora.