Need your help!!! Is this the Virus X ???

Rosenzobel · Post by **Rosenzobel** » May 19, 2008 11:09 am

Hello and again sorry for my bad english:

I have a wonderfull Hosta ( don´t know the name...;-( )
I noticed marks on only 2 ! leaves of the plant this year- these are the oldest leaves on the plant and i hope the marks come from cold/frost in spring...???????

Her is the plant:

see the leave in close up:

and here is the second leave from the same hosta

is this the virus ????????

thank u for help!
br
melanie

Tigger · Post by **Tigger** » May 19, 2008 5:32 pm

Es tut mir Leid, aber ich denke das dass die Virus ist.

(and sorry for my bad German)

It looks like a Gold Standard, which is very common to have the virus.

thy · Post by **thy** » May 19, 2008 7:53 pm

Sorry David..aber Ich glaube nicht...
Normally there will be a green/blue marking if t is HVX on a Gold Standard..and on more leaves

To mee it look like one of those stange markings a late frost can do ..even if the hosta is still an eye that night... but to be sure...
Can you plant it in a pot and wach it for a year or 2

We can do a test in Holland... never figuréd out how and for how much

If a test is 70€/$ 80 it for sure keep most private collectors from testing

planwerk · Post by **planwerk** » May 20, 2008 1:26 am

I am not sure either. Looks strange.
We had a bad late frost this year at the end of april (-10°C at the ground) in the southern parts of germany, a time some hostas started to unfurl this year, and there are lots of strange looking plants in my nursery

some showing signs like yours, some look like they spent some time in the microwave

and many have this little brown dots on the outer leaves.

Have a look on this one and don't cut or dig around this plant.

kontyx · Post by **kontyx** » May 20, 2008 3:56 pm

There are a few other viruses that affect hosta as well. It could be ArMV or TRV

Post by **Chris_W** » May 20, 2008 6:24 pm

kontyx wrote:There are a few other viruses that affect hosta as well. It could be ArMV or TRV

That's what I was thinking too. Those marking do look like a virus, they just don't look exactly like Hosta Virus X.

Rosenzobel · Post by **Rosenzobel** » May 21, 2008 7:00 am

Thank u sooo much ...

So i will hopr that this isn´t the virus X and maybe also no other virus...What meens ArMV???? The other iss tomato Ringspot- i know- but don´t tghink that the marks are from that Virus...don´t look like TRV ??..

greetz
melanie