Hollywood Lights

Hosta plant named ‘Hollywood Lights’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired October 11, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on October 6, 2025. This patent earned 5 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17296, the photograph of Hollywood Lights printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17296, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

Abstract

A new cultivar of Hosta named ‘Hollywood Lights’, a sport of Hosta ‘On Stage’, that is characterized by its unique variegated foliage with wide dark green margins comprising up to two thirds of the leaf area and centers that emerge yellow and change to yellow-green in summer. ‘Hollywood Lights’ is a large sized Hosta with a mounded plant habit and very pale lavender flowers that emerge in mid summer.

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1. A new and distinct cultivar of Hosta plant named ‘Hollywood Lights’ as herein illustrated and described.

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Hollywood Lights

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