Red Tubes is a tiny green hosta with rippled leaves and speckled petioles. It is named for its flowers which you see in the first picture in the Hosta Library http://www.hostalibrary.org/r/redtubes.html
Hosta Registry - not registered
MyHostas Database - http://www.myhostas.be/db/hostas/Red+Tubes
Hosta Library - http://www.hostalibrary.org/r/redtubes.html
I have had this plant for four seasons and it has flowered for me BUT I have never caught it in flower. One of these years I'll see it.
Here it is in early 2012 showing the speckles.
And here it is yesterday.
Hosta of the Day - Red Tubes
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Hosta of the Day - Red Tubes
Ed McHugh, Sicklerville NJ
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Re: Hosta of the Day - Red Tubes
Finally caught Red Tubes in flower.
And the feature that gives the plant its name but the red seems more on the pedicel then the flower tube.
Ed McHugh, Sicklerville NJ
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Re: Hosta of the Day - Red Tubes
Some additional Red Tube flower flower photos with some interesting "stains" on the flower tip.
Ed McHugh, Sicklerville NJ
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.
Mockingbird feeding juvenile yellow raisons - never leave home without them.