<i>Hosta </i>plant named ‘Trendsetter’

Abstract

A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Trendsetter’ of medium-sized, arching, long, ovate, medium-green leaves having wavy, yellow, jagged margins with numerous feathering intermediate colors and a narrowly acute curling apex. The flowers are pale lavender beginning in mid-June. ‘Trendsetter’ is attractive and is useful in the landscape, as a specimen or en masse or as a container plant.

Claims

1. A new and distinct Hosta plant cultivar named Hosta ‘Trendsetter’ as herein described and illustrated.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING

(1) The photograph of the new plant demonstrates the overall appearance of the plant, including the unique traits. The colors are as accurate as reasonably possible with color reproductions. Ambient light spectrum, temperature, source and direction may cause the appearance of minor variation in color.

(2) The drawings show a seven-year-old ‘Trendsetter’ plant in a trial garden at a nursery in Zeeland, Mich. with supplement fertilizer and water as needed.

(3) FIG. 1 shows the landscape foliage habit of a new plant just before flowering.

(4) FIG. 2 shows a close-up of the flowers and buds.

(5) FIG. 3 shows a close-up of the foliage.

DETAILED BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION

(6) The following descriptions and color references are based on the 2015 edition of The Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart except where common dictionary terms are used. The new plant, Hosta ‘Trendsetter’, has not been observed under all possible environments. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that certain characteristics will vary with plants that are more mature or plants that are less mature. The phenotype may vary slightly with different environmental conditions, such as temperature, light, fertility, moisture and maturity levels, but without any change in the genotype. The following observations and size descriptions are of a seven-year-old plant in a shaded trial garden in Zeeland, Mich. with supplemental water and fertilizer. Botanical classification: Hosta x hybrid; Parentage: Female or seed parent the proprietary “streaked ‘Niagara Falls’”; male or pollen parent ‘Empress Wu’; Propagation: Garden division and sterile shoot tip plant tissue culture; Time to initiate roots from tissue culture: About two to three weeks; Growth rate: Vigorous; Crop time: About three months to four months to finish during the spring in a one-liter container from rooted tissue culture plantlet; Rooting habit: Fleshy, lightly branching; Root color: Nearest RHS NN155C when actively growing; Plant shape and habit: Hardy herbaceous perennial with basal rosette of leaves emerging from rhizomes producing a medium mound of arching petioles and leaves and erect scapes flowering above foliage; Plant size: Foliage height to about 30.5 cm above soil line to the top of the leaves, to about 83.8 cm tall to the top of the flowers and to about 101.6 cm wide at the widest point slightly above the soil line; Foliage description: Broadly ovate; narrowly-acute curving apex, cordate base; margin entire, heavily undulate; glabrous and matte both adaxial and abaxial; flexible but stiff; smooth, not bullate; moderately impressed adaxial veins and costate abaxial veins; Leaf blade size: To about 24.0 cm long and about 15.0 cm wide; average about 21.5 cm long and 13.0 cm wide; margin to about 3.8 cm wide; Leaf blade color: Early season and expanding adaxial margin between RHS 160B and RHS 1C, abaxial margin nearest between RHS 160C and RHS 1D, adaxial center nearest RHS 137A and abaxial center between RHS 137B and RHS 137C, adaxial intermediate colors comprising RHS 148B, between RHS 160A and RHS 155A and between RHS 146D and RHS 145C, abaxial intermediate colors comprising RHS 146D and RHS 145A; mid-season and mature adaxial margins nearest RES 158B, abaxial margin nearest RHS 158B, adaxial center RHS 137A, abaxial center nearest RHS 137B, adaxial intermediate colors comprising RHS 148D, RHS 145C, between RHS 146D and RHS N145C, between RHS 191B and RHS 158B and between RHS 188A and RHS 148D, abaxial intermediate colors comprising RHS 145A, RHS 146D and between RHS 191B and RHS 191C; Petiole: Glabrous and slightly glaucous both adaxial and abaxial; deeply concavo-convex proximally and more shallowly concavo-convex; stiff; to 32.0 cm long and 1.0 cm wide at base and about 0.8 cm deep near base, average about 30.0 cm long, 0.9 cm wide and 0.7 cm deep; Petiole color: Adaxial margins about 1.0 mm wide between RHS 145D and RHS 158B, center distally nearest RHS 37B and proximally nearest RHS 146B; abaxial margins about 1.0 mm wide between RHS 145D and RHS 158B, midrib nearest RHS 145D, next to midrib nearest RHS 146C and margins nearest RHS 137B; Veins: Twelve to thirteen pairs and midrib; parallel; moderately impressed adaxial; costate and slightly asperous abaxial; Veins color: Young and mature adaxial midrib nearest RHS 137A primary nearest RHS 146D, abaxial midrib between RHS 145D and RHS 148D, primary nearest RHS 147C; Flower description: Buds one to two days prior to opening: Clavate, with rounded apex and narrow tube base; about 46.0 mm long and 10.0 mm in diameter at widest with base narrowing in basal 18.0 mm to about 3.0 mm diameter; Bud color: Bulb between RHS 76B and RHS 76C and tube nearest RHS 76C; Flowers: Perfect; flared campanulate; outwardly to slightly drooping; to 54.0 mm long to exserted stigma; corolla about 46.0 mm long and 44.0 mm wide at tepal apices, fused in basal 26.0 mm, free in the distal 20.0 mm; corolla tube portion 15.0 mm long and 3.5 mm diameter; decreasing distally; persists for a normal period, usually about one day on plant; flowers tightly arranged on scape; Flowering period: Scapes remain effective with flowers beginning mid-June for about four and a half weeks; with about 40 flowers per scape; mostly secund; Fragrance: No detectable fragrance; Tepal: Two nearly identical sets of three, glabrous; entire margins; Inner set.—About 46.0 mm long and 9.0 mm wide slightly above fusion point; fused in basal 26.0 mm; lanceolate to clavate with acute apex; margin entire with irregular blotchy 1.0 mm wide transparent border; basal 20.0 mm fused into tube. Inner set color.—Vitreous in blotchy irregular pattern along distal margin; adaxial nearest RHS 85C distally and corolla tube nearest RHS 85D, abaxial nearest RHS 85D, corolla tube portion nearest RHS 85D. Outer set.—About 46.0 mm long and 9.0 mm wide slightly above fusion point; fused in basal 26.0 mm; lanceolate to clavate with acute apex; entire margin without transparent border; basal 20.0 mm fused into tube. Outer set color.—Adaxial nearest RHS 85C distally and corolla tube nearest RHS 85D, abaxial nearest RHS 85D, corolla tube portion nearest RHS 85D. Gynoecium: Single; 54.0 mm long; superior; Style.—Cylindrical; about 46.0 mm long, 1.0 mm diameter; curved upward 60 degrees in distal 5.0 mm; color between RHS NN155D and RHS 145D proximally and nearest RHS NN155C distally. Stigma.—Puberulent; tri-lobed; about 1.2 mm across and 1.0 mm tall; color nearest RHS NN155B. Ovary.—Ellipsoidal; superior; apex rounded; base rounded to truncate; longitudinally sulcate; to about 7.0 mm long and 2.5 mm diameter in middle; color nearest RHS 145A. Androecium: Six; Filaments.—Six, approximately 48.0 mm long and 1.0 mm in diameter; curved upward to nearly 80 degrees in the distal 5.0 mm; color between RHS NN155D and RHS 145D proximally and nearest RHS NN155C distally. Anthers.—Ellipsoidal with rounded ends; dorsifixed, longitudinally dehiscent; about 6.0 mm long and 2.0 mm wide; color prior to dehiscing variable, nearest RHS 166B and RHS 165C adaxial and abaxial. Pollen.—Spherical; less than 0.1 mm long; color nearest RHS 17C. Flower fragrance: None observed; Peduncle: Cylindrical; usually one per mature division; about 4 per plant; glabrous, slightly glaucous; erect; to about 83.8 cm tall, and about 10.0 mm in diameter at base, average about 77.0 cm tall and 9.0 mm diameter at base; Inflorescence: Flowering portion about 24.0 cm long and 7.0 cm wide; with pale lavender flowers and small floral bracts subtending each flower; Peduncle color: Proximal portion below leaves nearest RHS 138B and distal portion nearest RHS 138A; Pedicel: Variable in length; terete; glabrous; slightly lustrous; about 6.0 mm to 12.0 mm long and 2.0 mm diameter; outwardly to slightly drooping; Pedicel color: Variable; nearest RHS 138B proximally and distally nearest RHS 85C with undertone of lighter than RHS N138D; Floral bracts: Each flower normally subtended by a single bract; ovate; acute apex and truncate clasping base; entire margin; glabrous and glaucous abaxial and adaxial; to about 14.0 mm long 7.0 cm wide, decreasing distally; persisting while flowers open; Bract color: Distal adaxial and abaxial between RHS 146D and RHS 145B with strong longitudinal blushing of RHS 79D, with narrow margins nearest RHS NN155B; Fruit: Tri-valved dehiscent capsule; ellipsoidal to cylindrical with apex apiculate to acute and attenuate base; about 32.0 mm long and 8.0 mm diameter; Fruit color: Nearest RHS 138B as maturing and RHS 161D when ripe; Seed: Typically about 30 per capsule; endospermic; flattened-ellipsoidal wing surrounding embryo at one end of ellipse; to about 7.0 mm long, 3.0 mm wide and 1.5 mm thick at embryo; Seed color: nearest RHS 202A; Disease resistance: The thick glaucous leaves provide some resistance to slug feeding. Other resistance to pests (including: Odocoileus virginianus and Oryctotagus cuniculus) and diseases common to Hostas is equal that typical of other cultivars. Growth conditions: The plant grows best and shows best coloration with plenty of moisture, adequate drainage and light shade, but is able to tolerate some drought when mature. Hardiness at least from USDA zone 3 through 8, and other disease resistance is typical of that of other Hostas.