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Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 10:27
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Subject: H. clausa questions
Greetings
I am hoping that somone could anser a few questions about H.
clausa. I have been growing a plant identified as H. clausa var clausa and
have been wondering if it is correctly labled
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Mark
As there are several distinct "forms" of H. clausa, they must be
distinguished. H. clausa is , of course the general species heading they
come under. H clausa var. clausa is , as you correctly noted, the
variety with flowers that do not open. The other primary variety, is H.
clausa var. normalis. As one might expect, it's flowers open in a
"mormal" manner. There are , by the way, several other 'varieties"
See W George Schmid "The Genus Hosta , pages 43 - 44. I should also
mention, that, my experience here, has been that clausa var. clausa, will
loose a lot of it's stoleniferis tendancies in highly sunny locations but is
in fact ( as you pointed out) a "near" weed in more shady and/or moist
locations.
Ran
