Description
Very cupped and corrugated leaves are spotted and streaked with varying shades of blues and greens. The ridges and valleys appear “bubble-like”. Eventually turns all blue. Blue-green in July.Long, near white tubular flowers in early July. Matures 12 inches tall and 26 inches wide. A Hostas-Store registered plant. Zones 3-9.
INTERESTING STORY: Hostas can sport more often when they are under extreme stress to survive. I purchased 96 H. Abiqua Drinking Gourd liners from Shady Oaks Nursery. A cold, wet, harsh winter killed several plants. I moved the survivors to a new location. A few years later, again, a very cold winter with strong NW cold winds. The one plant on the north row, which has raised soil where the ground can freeze the hardest. The one hosta emerges snow white, and eventually turned blue-green. I moved it to my sport patch. After the first year, the next five years it would emerge somewhat varying, but always the same described pattern listed above. Some springs more colorful and others less colorful. Depending on spring temps has an affect of how long the dramatic unusual colors last. I kept dividing and the divisions all seem the same quality. This is original stock. I am almost positive this hosta will never work in the tissue culture lab.
