A very odd hosta...

[jgh]

Saw this in one of the tour gardens at the AHS Convention last year in Michigan. I thought it was the most interesting hosta I encountered on the tours. It is either

1. way cool corrugation mutation
2. oddly physically damaged due to herbicide overspray
3. one sick puppy

Have you seen something like this before?

[HostaDesigner]

It looks like Roundup damage to me. Probably accidentally sprayed last year or early this spring and it's suffering the results.

[renaldo75]

I must have missed seeing that one. Kinda though actually...

[jobranch]

I vote for #2 and #3

[jgh]

Hostadesigner... I've hit some of my plants with overdrift from roundup... but I just got distorted plants that came up weak the second year and expired during the following winter... have you seen damage like this from RoundUp? It was just so curious - what seemed like a healthy plant overall - no browning or anything, just the deep dimples with the wiered rounded shapes...

[Chris_W]

Hmm, I've oversprayed with roundup before and just got browning spots on the leaves, though once I did accidentally saturate and burn a hosta back to the ground with roundup and the next year it came back smaller but normal looking.

This looks far too uniform to be HVX, but wow, that is wild looking! Would love to know more about what it is and its origins.

And I don't know why, but I suddenly have a craving for waffles...

[thy]

If not Round Up'ed

I love it
And if I saw it for sale... be sure I would bye it

[jgh]

I've contacted the gardener... he's going to try to find it... he didn't mark it and isn't sure where it is in his large collection... but we may have an update on it one of these days...

[Tigger]

Thinking of this pic, I spotted a similar effect on a hosta at Barbara Tiffany's yesterday. 'Twas a Lakeside something. My sorry brain can't remember, and it's uploaded to iPhoto at home while I'm in a hotel somewhere that's not home. Will post a pic later this week if the topic stays active.

I guess my point is that I wouldn't expect to see a sick hosta in an AHS Convention tour garden. So we're 2 for 2 on hostas that look like this, so it must be real!

David
(wasn't that about a worthless post?)