HOSTA

DICTIONARY

Bloom- A flower.

Bloom Time- The time period between when the first flower of a stem or clump opens.

Corrugated- see Seer-suckering

Crown- The small white core located between leaves and roots, that is the modified stem of the daylily plant. Some crown tissue must be present for any daylily division to be viable.

Cultivar- A plant that is clearly distinguished by identical physical characteristics and maintains these characteristics through proper propagation means.

Cupped- Leaf blade having the center of the leaf lower than the margins; concave.

Dimples- A slight form of seer-suckering.

Division- A Hosta with a single shoot with roots attached.

Fan- Also call a Division refers to an individual unit of a clump, containing leaves, crown and roots. Within a clump, each fan is genetically identical to the parent.

Heart- Shaped-shaped like a valentine heart.

Lance- Shaped-having a narrow pointed leaf tip and leaf blade width less than half the length of the blade.

Roots- A part of the plant (usually underground) whose function is to act as support and anchorage, as a place of food storage and the primary organ of water and mineral absorption.

Scapes- For a Hosta; the flower stem.

Seer-Suckering- The gathering of a leaf between the veins giving the leaf a bubbled effect.

Substance- The amount of thickness between the veins, to the touch, of a fully expanded leaf blade.

Texture- The characteristic of the leave surface to the eye.

Variegated- Leaf having more than one color due to a difference in pigment components as margined.

Wavy- A course wave to the leaf blade.