<i>Hosta </i>plant named ‘Time in a Bottle’

Abstract

A new and distinct Hosta plant named ‘Time in a Bottle’ of arching, lanceolate, chartreuse leaves having a lustrous underside and moderately wavy margins. The flowers are dark purple and tightly congested on upright to slightly-outwardly dark-reddish scapes above the foliage and typically do not open. ‘Time in a Bottle’ has excellent, small, compact, mounded habit and is useful in the landscape, in containers, as a specimen or en masse.

Claims

1. A new and distinct Hosta plant cultivar named Hosta ‘Time in a Bottle’ 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 shows the new plant in a trial garden at a nursery in Zeeland, Mich. with supplement fertilizer and water as needed.

(3) FIG. 1 shows the landscape habit of a six-year-old plant just before flowering.

(4) FIG. 2 shows a close-up of the flowers and buds on a six-year-old plant.

(5) FIG. 3 shows a close-up of the foliage of a six-year-old plant.

(6) FIG. 4 shows the foliage landscape habit of a six-year-old plant.

DETAILED BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION

(7) 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 ‘Time in a Bottle’, 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 six 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 ‘Atom Smasher’; male or pollen parent is the proprietary hybrid 11-463-02 which is a hybrid of ‘Curly Fries’ (not patented); Propagation: Garden division and sterile shoot tip plant tissue culture; Time to initiate roots from tissue culture: About two to three weeks; Growth rate: Moderately 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 short, compact, mound of arching petioles and leaves and upwardly scapes flowering above foliage; Plant size: Foliage height about 30.5 cm above soil line to the top of the leaves, about 61.0 cm tall to the top of the flowers and about 91.0 cm wide at the widest point at the soil line; Foliage description: Glabrous and dull adaxial and glabrous and slightly lustrous abaxial; lanceolate; narrowly acute apex, attenuate base; margin entire, moderately sinuate; flexible; smooth, without blistering, dimpling or bulging; Leaf blade size: To about 17.8 cm long and 5.5 cm wide; average about 15.0 cm long and 4.5 cm wide; Leaf blade color: Young adaxial between RHS 150B and RHS 150C, abaxial between RHS 150B and RHS 150C; mid-season and later adaxial variable nearest RHS 137C and between RHS 146D and RHS 151D, mid-season and later abaxial between RHS 146D and RHS 151D; Petiole: Glabrous and slightly lustrous both adaxial and abaxial; concavo-convex proximally and distally; flexible; to 19.5 cm long, 8.0 mm wide at base and 4.0 mm deep; average about 17.0 cm long and 7.0 mm wide; Petiole color: Young adaxial and abaxial basal one-third between RHS 150C and RHS 150B heavily maculate with N79C, distally between RHS 151D and RHS 146D; mature adaxial nearest RHS 146D and maculate more concentrated to solid proximally and less concentrated distally with nearest RHS 187D, mature abaxial distally nearest RHS 146B, proximal three-quarters moderately maculate with nearest RHS 187D and center midrib nearest RHS 155A; Veins: Typically five pairs and midrib; parallel; slightly costate and smooth on abaxial side; Veins color: Adaxial nearest and between RHS 146D and RHS 151D, abaxial between RHS 146D and RHS 151D; Flower description: Buds one to two days prior to opening: Cycloidal with acute apex and truncate base; about 30.0 mm long and 9.0 mm in diameter at widest near center, with short narrowed tube at base about 3.0 mm long and 4.0 mm diameter; Bud color: Blend between RHS 85A and RHS 86D with tepal margins nearest RHS 86A; Flowers: Typically not opening; cycloidal; outwardly; to 30.0 mm long and 9.0 mm across; corolla fused in basal 18.0 mm, free in the distal 12.0 mm, (distal flowers smaller); Inflorescence: Flowers tightly arranged in verticil near middle and individually separated above and below; flowering in distal 30.0 cm and about 5.5 cm across; Flowering period: Scapes remain effective with flowers beginning mid-August for about four weeks; with about 44 flowers per scape; distinctly secund; no detectable fragrance; Tepal: Two nearly identical sets of three, glabrous; lanceolate; entire margins; narrowly acute apices and fused in the basal 18.0 mm; Inner set.—Approximately 30.0 mm long and 5.0 mm wide slightly above fusion point. Inner set color.—Adaxial nearest RHS 79C; abaxial margins nearest RHS 86A, central portion including tube nearest RHS 86D. Outer set.—Approximately 30.0 mm long and 9.0 mm wide slightly at fusion point. Outer set color.—Adaxial nearest RHS 79C; abaxial margins nearest RHS 86A, central portion including tube nearest RHS 86D. Gynoecium: One to six per flower; to 19.0 mm long; superior; Style.—Cylindrical; twisted near base and distortedly bent; variable; about 9.0 mm long, 0.5 mm diameter; color nearest RHS 145D. Stigma.—Puberulent; rounded; variable; about 0.5 mm across and 0.5 mm tall; color nearest RHS NN155A. Ovary.—Ovoidal; superior; apex truncate; base truncate; to about 4.0 mm long and 3.5 mm diameter in middle; color apex and base nearest RHS N79A, with longitudinal lines of nearest RHS 145B. Androecium: Not observed or rudimentary; Filaments.—Two or fewer if present; to approximately 7.0 mm long and 0.2 mm in diameter; color nearest RHS 145D. Anthers.—Not observed. Pollen.—Not observed. Flower fragrance: None observed; Peduncle: Cylindrical; glabrous; slightly lustrous; usually one per mature division; about 35 per plant; semi-lustrous, glabrous; nearly vertical to slightly outwardly; to about 61.0 cm tall, and about 5.0 mm in diameter at base, average about 56 cm tall and 4.5 mm diameter at base; Peduncle color: Proximal portion densely maculate nearest RHS 187C and basal portion less densely maculate nearest RHS 187C, with undertone of nearest RHS 145C; Pedicel: Cylindrical; glabrous; glaucous; about 10.0 mm long and 1.5 mm diameter; outwardly to slightly upwardly; Pedicel color: Variable; beginning nearest RHS N82D, maturing to a variable mix of nearest RHS196D and nearest RHS N81D; Floral bracts: Each flower normally subtended by a single bract; lanceolate; narrowly acute apex and truncate base; entire margin; glabrous and matte abaxial and adaxial; to about 16.0 cm long 7.0 mm wide; decreasing in size distally; drying and dehiscing before flowers open; Bract color: Variable; adaxial with portions of nearest RHS 146D, RHS 194C and blend between RHS 72A and RHS 72B with translucent margins about 0.5 mm wide; abaxial variable portions of nearest RHS 146D, RHS 147C and blend between RHS 72A and RHS 72B with translucent margins about 0.5 mm wide. Fruit and seed: Not observed; 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. 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.