GREAT BALLS OF FIRE

Streaked sport of Abiqua Drinking Gourd. Registered by us, Kevin and Olga Elchuk, 2012.  Intensely cupped blue corrugated leaves with green and yellow streaking. Near white flowers in July. Seeds fertile with many streaked seedlings resulting. Does send up solid blue divisions so you must cull them to keep the rest of the plant streaky.  High maintenance hosta but great for hybridizing as it is highly fertile. We have many beautiful seedlings from Great Balls of Fire such as a recently registered one called Grand Duchess which has Great Balls of Fire as the pod parent (mother) and Empress Wu as the pollen parent (father).