Hosta of the Day - Snake Charmer

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Hosta of the Day - Snake Charmer

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Snake Charmer is a plant I received in a trade from Bev Stegman in 2012. It is not yet registered. It is an all green plant with long leaves and red petioles. It flowers late with branched scapes.

Snake Charmer is a cross of ('Mikawa-No-Yuki' X 'One Man's Treasure') X 'Yoshingawa' so it has a lot of kikutii in it's parentage both pod and pollen. It has a lot of longipes in the pod parent from the OMT pollen and the longipes part of 'Mikawa-No-Yuki' which may account for the color in the flower since I grow both 'Mikawa-No-Yuki' and 'Yoshingawa' and they have light colored flowers (for me anyway).

It also has a finely serrated edge which can be seen at the Stegeman's Web site http://www.foosf.com/gallery/main.php/v ... 2.jpg.html
http://www.foosf.com/gallery/main.php/v ... ?g2_page=2
I have noted that edge on 'Yoshingawa' http://www.perennialnursery.com/forums/ ... &mode=view

Hosta Registry - not yet registered
MyHostas - not in the Database
Hosta Library - http://www.hostalibrary.org/s/snakecharmer.html

Here it is in 2012 when I received it.
Snake Charmer - April 13, 2012
Snake Charmer - April 13, 2012
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Snake Charmer - April 13, 2012
Snake Charmer - April 13, 2012
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Snake Charmer - April 23, 2012
Snake Charmer - April 23, 2012
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Reason: add an OMT piece to the parentage that I had missed
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Snake Charmer in 2013 with branching scapes.
Snake Charmer - September 11, 2013
Snake Charmer - September 11, 2013
Showing the branching scapes:
Snake Charmer - September 6, 2013
Snake Charmer - September 6, 2013
Snake Charmer - September 7, 2013
Snake Charmer - September 7, 2013
Snake Charmer - September 11, 2013
Snake Charmer - September 11, 2013
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Snake Charmer this season:
This first photo shows the lateral scape coming out at the center/top.
Snake Charmer - August 20, 2015
Snake Charmer - August 20, 2015
Snake Charmer - September 8, 2015
Snake Charmer - September 8, 2015
Snake Charmer - August 29, 2015
Snake Charmer - August 29, 2015
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Last batch of Snake Charmer photos showing the flowers.
Snake Charmer - August 20, 2015
Snake Charmer - August 20, 2015
Snake Charmer - September 8, 2015
Snake Charmer - September 8, 2015
Snake Charmer - September 8, 2015
Snake Charmer - September 8, 2015
Snake Charmer - September 8, 2015
Snake Charmer - September 8, 2015
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