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13/07/05

09:04:00, Categories: Collection, Cultivars, Netherlands, Sports, 181 words

Essence of Summer - a Fragrant Tetraploid Hosta

These are the fragrant flowers of 'Essence of Summer' (Jan van den Top & Marco Fransen 2004). It is a tetraploid conversion of 'Warwick Essence' (Gil Jones 1993).

At the start of the nineties 'Warwick Essence' was a hybridizing breakthrough, being the cross of 'Northern Halo' (a sieboldiana 'Elegans' type) and plantaginea. It isn't the easiest cross to make because of the different flowering periods. Gil succeeded, the result being a hosta with substance and fragrance, a "fragrant sieboldiana".

To even further improve it's substance and maybe it's fragrance, 'Warwick Essence' was artificially converted to the tetraploid 'Essence of Summer'. It has very thick leaves on strong petioles. Best of all, the flowers are still fragrant, a bit larger and have more substance. This is the first fragrant tetraploid I've seen, although I've heard some rumors about a tetraploid 'Fragrant Bouquet'.

We'll have to see if it's pod and/or pollen fertile, I tried some tetraploid pollen on it. In the morning the anthers were still closed, so I had to come back in the afternoon to collect the pollen.

'Essence of Summer'

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