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						  Registered by 
					Crickett Bailey of Vermont in
						2017,  this 
						large size (24 inches high by 46 inches wide) cultivar is an 
						upright growing 
						sport of H. 'Nancy Gill'. The moderately 
						blue-green leaves have creamy white streaked 
						variegation. Its leaves are nearly round, slightly 
						cupped, wavy and dull on top. The petioles are spotted 
						with red pigment. Pale lavender flowers bloom from 
						mid-July into August on purple scapes about 24 inches 
						tall. The 
						registration materials state: "...Nearly round 
						blue-green leaves are misted & streaked with cream and 
						white. Purple flower scapes, red spotted petioles and 
						leaf edges that roll up." 
						According to the
						
						2019 AHS Online Auction webpage, "H. 
						'Nancy Gill' is a seedling from H. 'Sum and 
						Substance' x 
						H. pycnophylla'. Hybridizing with S&S is 
						difficult because S &S is a triploid (3-3-3) and H. pycnopylla is diploid. Successfully crossing a triploid 
						with a diploid is usually very iffy.   H. 'Nancy Gill' was 
						flow cytometric measured and found to be "almost 
						triploid." It's an "aneuploid"; ploidy is 2.7-2.7-2.7 or 
						2.8-2.8-2.8. Nevertheless, 'Nancy Gill' acts like 
						triploid S&S. Most likely 'Crickett's Mouintain Mist' 
						has the same ploidy and acts similarly." |