| Hosta | A Many-splendored Thing |
| Status | registered |
| Originator(s) | Ed Elslager 1999 |
| Origin | 'Dorothy Benedict' x hypoleuca |
| Size category | very large |
| Plant height x width | 60x110 cm (24x43 in.) |
| Leaf length x width | 29x24 cm (11x9 in.) |
| Vein pairs | 17-18 |
| Leaf color | dark green,golden yellow edge |
| Variegation | edge |
| Leaf | heavy, corrugated |
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| Scape | |
| Scape height | 75 cm (30 in.) |
| Flower | pale lavender |
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| Flowering period | June - July |
| Fertile | |
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| Ploidy | |
| Patents | |
| Info | Mr. Elslager's large sieboldiana type selection from H.'Dorothy Benedict' x H.hypoleuca cross produces very large leaves with a dark green center. A very wide greenish yellow margin circles the nearly round corrugated leaves. Pale lavender flowers midsummer. Cupped, rugose and shiny. 24" high, upright, plant with a dark green center and a 2.75" wide, rippled, golden yellow margin, slightly shiny on top and glaucous bloom underneath, lightly cupped, moderatly corrugated, nearly round leaf with heavy substance. |
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