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| Hosta | Calamity Jane |
| Status | registered |
| Originator(s) | Stephen Nyikos 2001 |
| Origin | 'William Lachman' x plantaginea |
| Size category | large |
| Plant height x width | |
| Leaf length x width | 23x18 cm (9x7 in.) |
| Vein pairs | 10-12 |
| Leaf color | green,streaked,yellow |
| Variegation | streaked |
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| Flower | pale lavender |
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| Fragrant | very fragrant |
| Flowering period | July |
| Fertile | |
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| Ploidy | |
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| Info | Lemon lime leaves irregularly streaked yellow changing to creamy white. Before my brother began taking classes a few years ago he began his own hybridizing program. I began pestering him to give me a division off of some that he liked. I figured fair was fair as I was giving him some divisions off of mine. Anyway, he gave me this seedling. You see, my brother is a perfectionist and he gave me the whole plant of something he was not entirely sure was worth keeping. Boy, did he regret giving me all of it :-> This plant is now called 'Calamity Jane'. It is an irregularly variegated medium green leaf with a nice satin sheen. The streaking like it's pod parent is a nice soft gold that often changes to a creamy white. It is a cross between 'William Lachman' and plantaginea. It has nice large nocturnal,medium but pale lavender very fragrant flower. While it shares its difficulty setting pods with its plantaginea parent, I already have two seedlings from two different pollen parents that I feel sure I will register in the next few years. (Some day I will share my secret for improving pod set on plants with a plantaginea ancestry.) 'Calamity Jane' produces a low percentage of variegated seedlings. I grew 'Calamity Jane' next to 'Little Boy'. If people did not walk to see the 40 inch tall, 6 foot wide 'Little Boy' they zeroed in on 'Calamity Jane'. This plant is an eye magnet in the yard. It passes the 100 foot test with ease! 'Calamity Jane' is a Stephen Nyikos introduction you may purchase either from me or from his nursery. |
| Sports | 'Jane Doe' sport/gg 'Jane Sample' sport/gy |
| Progeny | 'Eye of the Hurricane' = PP x hypoleuca |