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Hosta 'Tarantella'

 

Registered by Gerhard and Renate Ragus of Germany in 2020, this medium size (13 inches high by 27 inches wide) cultivar is an open-pollinated seedling of H. 'Dancing Mouse'.

The broadly ovate foliage is medium blue-green in color and is slightly cupped, flat and dull on top. Its petioles are lightly blue-green in color. Pale purple flowers with purple inner lines and white at the base bloom from late July into August on scapes 18 to 24 inches tall followed by viable seeds.

The registration materials state: "...Nice combination of leaves and very strong upright flower stems with numerous large flowers. Unexpected shape considering the pod parent.  Large seedpods."


   

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