![](../../images/buttons/000000-AA-Book-Encyc.gif) This cultivar is the first known sport of H. 'Piedmont Gold' which was registered in 1988 by
Mary Chastain of
Lakeside Acres Nursery in Tennessee.
It grows to a large size hosta with a height of 27 inches and a width of 50 inches. The
gold colored leaves have a very light chartreuse marginal variegation. Near
white flowers bloom from late June into July.
The New Encyclopedia of Hostas by
Diana
Grenfell (2009) states: "Moderate to rapid growth rate...Among the first
known hostas with this particular color combination. Makes an impressive
specimen."
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An article by C.H. Falstad about the stability of colors in hosta leaves in
The
Hosta Journal (2006 Vol. 37 No. 1) says, "Examples of
this backward mutations - which move the plant closer to its more natural state
of all-green leaves - are the yellow-leaved 'Vanilla Cream'...sporting to 'Wylde Green Cream'...which has a dark green margin and yellow center, and to 'Ice
Cream'...which has a green center and yellow margin...Some yellow-leaved
varieties seem to be able to mutate to forms with subtle variegation. H.
'Lakeside Symphony'...which comes from 'Piedmont Gold'...is an example, as is
the more recent green-margined 'Corn Belt'...which comes from 'Jimmy Crack
Corn'."
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