BAMSE(OS!!)

Hosta `Bamse', lavender and striped, 19-25", July-August. LARGE. Mounds 22" high by 50"wide. Leaves 12"long by 10"wide(14vp); medium green mottled with darker green; rippled; glaucous bloom underneath; moderately corrugated; broadly ovate. What's amazing is how this "mottles" up after emerging. Usually, these "funky" colors appear early and soon fade. (CAnderson, 2014. The sport of H.`Lemon Meringue') Delaware Valley Hosta Society auction 7/15/17 from the garden of Dave and Roberta Chopko. Dave reflects it as a reverse of his H.`Sourpuss'. PRONOUNCED: "Bum-sa"