Hosta "Fire Island" review
Hosta 'Fire Island' came from Bill Brincka in 1998. The leaves are greenish yellow with flat margins and the top is slightly shiny while the underside is dull. The leaves are intensely wavy and broadly ovate. The petiole remains red for the entire season. The flowers are lavender and tubular. It produces green pods. Its parentage is Hosta longipes hypoglauca x Hosta 'Crested Surf'
Hosta "Fire Island" information:
| Size Category | small |
| Hosta height x width | 35x85 cm (14x33 in.) inches |
| Leaf length x width | 17x11 cm (7x4 in.) inches |
| Vein pairs | 7-8 |
| Leaf color | |
| Variegation | viridescent |
| Leaf type | very wavy, ovate |
| Petiole | very wavy, ovate |
| Scape | reddish |
| Scape height | 50 cm (20 in.) |
| Flower | lavender |
| Fragrant | |
| Flower length | 6.5 cm (2.6 in.) |
| Flowering period | August |
| Fertile | |
| Pod | green |
| Ploidy | |
| Patents | |
| Sports | 'Audrey's Island' sport/gy 'Fireplace' sport/gy 'Paradise Island' sport/yg 'Pinani Island Surf' sport/yw 'Tropic Sunset' sport/yg |
| Progeny | 'Heart Strings' = 'Paradise Joyce' x PP |
