Hosta of the Day #2 - Yakushima Mizu

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Yakushima Mizu is a small dark green plant with very rippled leaf edge. The database also shows it as H. gracillima 'Yakushima Mizu'.

Registry - not registered - it is a species
MyHostas - http://myhostas.be/db/hostas/Yakushima+Mizu
Hosta Library - http://www.hostalibrary.org/wxyz/yakushima.html

I have had this plant since the 2012 season. It has been very hard to get flower pictures. It puts up many scapes that the rabbits love to take down. The one series of flowers I could get were deformed with no filaments holding up the anthers. Many times buds would form and not open.

Yakushima Mizu in late 2012 showing rabbit eaten scapes in the center and a new very late scape coming in on the left

Yakushima Mizu - September 17, 2012

And in the 2013 season with flowers

Yakushima Mizu - August 12, 2013

Yakushima Mizu - August 12, 2013

Yakushima Mizu - August 12, 2013

Picture showing 3 anthers in the throat of the flower

Yakushima Mizu - August 16, 2013

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More of Yakushima Mizu in the late 2013 seaon

Yakushima Mizu - September 21, 2013

Very late buds that wouldn't open - not many buds will open in October

Yakushima Mizu - October 16, 2013

Yakushima Mizu early in the 2014 season - nice tightly rippled leaves

Yakushima Mizu - May 18, 2014

And late in the season with scapes

Yakushima Mizu - September 19, 2014

And buds that will not open

Yakushima Mizu - September 19, 2014