Search Site

Welcome to HostasDirect!

Tortifrons

Be the first to review this product

Availability: In stock

Product Name Price Qty
Tortifrons Starter Hosta (TC)

Regular Price: $12.95

Special Price: $9.71

OR

Quick Overview

Cool container plant. Very different!

More Views

  • Tortifrons
  • Tortifrons

Details

Heavily twisted, thick dark green corkscrew leaves. Needs to be grown in lots of sun to get the leaves to corkscrew; the cause of the twisting of the leaves is reported to be a somatic mutation in the leaf, not necessarily in the nuclear DNA. Reportedly the veins are confused, causing the leaf to twist. Blooms late, in October, with lavender flowers. Difficult to propogate in tissue culture. In Japan known as "Arechi Giboshi."

Additional Information

AHS - Rating No
AHS - Mini Rating No
Plant - Bog Tolerant No
Plant - Density No
Plant - Drought Tolerant No
Plant - Fun Name No
Plant - Growth Rate Slow
Plant - Height 8"
Plant - Patented No
Plant - PPAF No
Plant - Rhizomatous No
Plant - Shape Mound-like
Plant - Size Small
Plant - Sun Resistant No
Plant - Slug Resistant No
Plant - Specimen Spacing 18"
Plant - Wave Spacing 24"
Plant - Year New at HostasDirect 2008
Leaf - Base Wedge
Leaf - Color Detail Dark green leaf with a mottled lighter green with a flat hairline light green margin
Leaf - Center Color Green
Leaf - Margin Color No
Leaf - Cupped No
Leaf - Cup Direction No
Leaf - Flat Edge No
Leaf - Corrugation No
Leaf - Folded No
Leaf - Twisted Moderately
Leaf - Wavy/Undulated No
Leaf - Piecrust No
Flower - Fragrant No
Leaf - Substance No
Leaf - Margin Contortion Flat
Leaf - Margin Size No
Leaf - Shape Lance
Leaf - Size 4.125" x 1.5" W
Leaf - Length 4.25
Leaf - Width 1.5
Leaf - Mottled Yes
Leaf - Speckled No
Leaf - Splashed No
Leaf - Streaked No
Leaf - Upper Leaf Luster Slightly Shiny
Leaf - Under Leaf Luster Very Shiny
Leaf - Vein Color No
Leaf - Vein Furrows No
Leaf - Vein Pairs 2 to 3
Leaf - White Leaf Back No
Flower - Bracts No
Flower - Branched Scape No
Flower - Clustered Bloom No
Flower - Color Lavender, Pale
Flower - Double Blooms No
Flower - Reblooms No
Flower - Striped Bloom Yes
Flower - Inflorescence No
Flower - Pod Color No
Flower - Scape Color Green
Flower - Scape Height 11.5
Flower - Scape Height Range 11.5
Flower - Season September
Flower - Shape Tubular
Flower - Viable Seed No
Petiole - Color No
Petiole - Shape No
Petiole - Size No
Petiole - Variegation No
Hybridizing - Parentage [Parentage Unknown]
Hybridizing - Originator F. Maekawa
Hybridizing - Namer F. Maekawa & W. G. Schmid
Hybridizing - Introducer Japan
Hybridizing - Registrant AHS
Hybridizing - Year Registered 2002

Product Tags

Use spaces to separate tags. Use single quotes (') for phrases.

©1999-2010 HostasDirect, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
19 Mid Oaks Road, Roseville, MN 55113