MyHostas database

HostaHacksaw

Statusnot registered

Originator(s)Ron Livingston

Origin'Atom Smasher' x 'Stiletto'

Size categorysmall

Plant height x width 

Leaf length x width 

Vein pairs 

Leaf coloryellowish-green>green

Variegationviridescent

Leafserrated edge

Petiole 

Scape 

Scape height 

Flower 

Flower length 

Fragrant 

Flowering periodJuly

Fertileyes

Pod 

Ploidy 

Patents 

InfoFirst Look 2003 William and Eleanor Lachman Award (Best Seedling Judges).
It is a small, rapidly growing plant with long narrow and tapered leaves which are intensely rippled and serrated. That's right - serrated! This is a hot one for you hybridizers and would-be hybridizers out there. Truly ground-breaking from a genetic perspective, it's appeal as a "collector's hosta" in no way disputes it's garden worthiness. It is extremely fertile both ways, and sun-tolerant.
The leaf edge looks dangerous, but the only damage likely to be incurred is to your
perceptions of what might previously have been termed "hosta".
Blooms very late in the season with lavender flowers.

Sports

Progeny'Jello' = 'Korean Snow' x PP
'Mawashibiki' = PP x 'Ray of Hope'
'The Razor's Edge' = PP x 'Atom Smasher'
'Tousled Hair' seedling
'Wizard of Ahhhs' = PP x 'Blue Cascade'