Hosta "Red Hot Flash" review
Introduced in 2005, this is a tetraploid form of 'Peedee Gold Flash' with bright yellow leaves margined in green, beautiful red petioles. More vigorous than 'Peedee Gold Flash', with more substance. This new sport, a tetraploid form of Hosta 'Peedee Gold Flash', comes from Virginia's Mobjack Nursery...home of Hosta 'Patriot'. The small, 21" wide x 12" tall clump is composed of medium-green leaves with a very wide, golden center that changes to parchment as it matures. One of the neat effects is to constantly have both color leaf centers on the plant simultaneously. The red-tinted leaf petiole adds another dimension of interest to this unique hosta. The clump is topped with 2' tall spikes of dark lavender flowers in midsummer.
Hosta "Red Hot Flash" information:
| Size Category | medium |
| Hosta height x width | 30x50 cm (12x20 in.) inches |
| Leaf length x width | 30x5 cm (12x2 in.) inches |
| Vein pairs | 4-5 |
| Leaf color | |
| Variegation | medio |
| Leaf type | a bit wavy, lance |
| Petiole | a bit wavy, lance |
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| Flower | deep purple |
| Fragrant | |
| Flower length | 4 cm (1.6 in.) |
| Flowering period | July - August |
| Fertile | |
| Pod | green |
| Ploidy | 4-4-4 suggested |
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