Help with identification?

[wildflax]

I would appreciate any help identifying these hostas that my mom has bought through the years but who hasn't kept clear the tags.

[thy]

First one is a Tardiana, wich one I can't say

The biggest blue with the white edge is El Niño
For the bright green I am thinking Warpaint... you'll know it in the spring

[Chris_W]

First one I agree is some kind of Tardiana, probably Halcyon (the most common one).

The second one? Maybe Dark Shadows? Was the edge lighter earlier in the year?

The third one looks like Paradigm.

The 4th - the larger one does look like El Nino. Is the smaller one also blue in the middle?

The last one is badly infected with Hosta Virus X. It could be a diseased Blue Cadet. I'd get that one out of the garden and then don't plant another hosta there.

Hope that helps some more, and sorry for the bad news about HVX.

Chris

[Angel3K]

Need help to ID this hosta: This was my purchase in 2004, and i discarded the tag. Its a big mound in my aunts backyard, so I took two baby plants to my garden.

Could it be old faithful?



This is the young left, light green in the middle and darker on the edge.



The plant in the pot and on the ground is the same. The leaves are nice, full and ribbed.





A focus on the leaf and the flowering bud.

[wildflax]

Thanks everyone. Hosta Virus X? Hmmm. That's our first case then over here. Okay, I will get it out of there. Any special way needed to destroy it?

Thanks.

[thy]

Put it in the trash bin ... NOT the compost bin and clean the tools

[wildflax]

The infected hosta is near three of the others that I posted pics of here. A couple of hte other have small holes which we presumed were from the Japanese Beetles. Should we pull them all?

[viktoria]

No need to.

The other hosta to ID looks like Fortunei Albopicta.

Viktoria

[Angel3K]

hello viktoria,

thanks. yes, indeed it is. I look at it on the hosta library, and the cream center, dark green edges was truly beautiful earlier, and then it turns to nice darker green with good substance.

ah..."hosta no name" no more. My charmer is called Fortunei Albopicta. And what is exciting to me- this is an old hosta, exactly what I am collecting. "said to be around 1860". this baby will have a place beside Lancifolia -1888.

thanks again.

cheers!
angie

[Linda P]

Wildflax, If you dug and divided all of them with the same shovel without cleaning in between, you will want to
watch the others for any sign of HVX. While you're watching them, be sure to clean any tools that you
use on them for anything (includingy our hands) with bleach before moving on to another hosta.
I recently toured a garden where there was HVX on a number of hostas, inclujding some that came from my
garden. I was puzzled how they got that way, as mine are all fine. Then She sowed me a plant that was a gift
from a family member, and it was definitely infected. She said she knew when she got it that it had something
wrong with it, but didn't know what it was, and didn't know that she could spread it to other hostas. She didn't
want to discard it because it was a gaift.
She cutsher scapes off when they are finished blooming, and goes from one to the other without cleaning her pruners.
She also didn't know about cleaning the shovel when moving or dividing hostas. It was sad to see.

Linda P

[wildflax]

Thanks for the insight. We haven't divided any of them --they are all small and different hostas which went into the ground all about the same time. Such a sad sight!