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| Hosta | Pathfinder |
| Status | registered |
| Originator(s) | Briggs Nursery 1999 |
| Origin | 'Francee' sport |
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| Size category | medium |
| Plant height x width | 40x90 cm (16x35 in.) |
| Leaf length x width | 15x12 cm (6x5 in.) |
| Vein pairs | 9 |
| Leaf color | creamy white, edge,green,dark green edge |
| Variegation | medio |
| Leaf | thick, a bit rippled, a bit shiny, a bit corrugated |
| Petiole | |
| Scape | creamy white purple spots |
| Scape height | 60 cm (24 in.) |
| Flower | lavender |
| Flower length | 7.5 cm (3 in.) |
| Fragrant | |
| Flowering period | July - August |
| Fertile | |
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| Ploidy | 4-4-4 |
| Patents | |
| Info | We are very excited to be able to offer you this new introduction from Briggs Nursery in Olympia, WA, a sport of H. 'Francee' that has very thick leaves (definitely a tetraploid) with creamy-white centers that are speckled green and a wide slightly rippled, matching dark green margin. The leaves are slightly shiny, lightly corrugated and quite round but come to a point. The pale purple flowers are held on white scapes with purple spots in midseason. This plant seems to exhibit tremendous vigor for a hosta with as much white in the leaf. This unique Hosta 'Francee' mutation is almost certainly a reverse tetraploid of the parent...similar to Hosta 'Loyalist'. The black-green slightly rippled foliage is background to the brilliant creamy white central pattern on each leaf. Each 2' wide clump is indeed a glowing beacon in the garden. In early summer, the clumps are topped with 20" scapes of light lavender flowers. |
| Sports | 'Cotton Candy' sport/om 'High Country' sport/cg 'Hypnosis' sport/gw 'Midnight at the Oasis' sport/om 'Olympic Glacier' sport/gw 'Take the Green Path' sport/gg 'Woop Woop' sport/wg |
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