| This is a non-registered seedling of 
						H. montana  
						from 
				Japan. It forms a large size hosta with green 
						leaves and a semi-upright form. The key trait is that it 
						bears double, white flowers in July. 
						  
			 
						
						 An article about the cultivar H. 
'Yae-no-oba' by Warren I. Pollock in 
			The 
				Hosta Journal (2001 Vol. 32 No. 2)  states that, "This cultivar is a selection of H. plantaginea    
'Aphrodite' growing in 
Ralph 
"Herb" Benedict's garden...according to 
Ron Williams of House of Hosta in Green 
Bay, Wisconsin, who introduced it, is a "vast improvement over H. plantaginea  
'Aphrodite' as it blooms profusely each year"...(Pollock continues) I've also 
found that these H. plantaginea  plants flower better if the weather is hot: in 
the upper 80s and higher along with high night temperatures...."Yae" means "to 
have two of something" in Japanese, in other words "double"..." 
			 
  
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