The captain in the "Star Trek" series who has a hosta plant named after him is Captain James Tiberius Kirk. The plant is known as the Captain Kirk Hosta.

This plant is known to be the perfect shade-garden perennial, and it (the Captain Kirk Hosta) is considered a superstar performer. This reliable and hardy plant’s thick, waxy leaves resist slugs. They are variegated with a sharp color contrast of bright gold centers and wide dark green margins. The gold turns ivory as the summer months progress. It is a large plant almost 20-inches high, with a 3-feet spread, bearing lavender flowers on 30-inch-tall scapes in midsummer.

The Captain Kirk Hosta is viewed as an improved sport (genetic mutation) of ‘Hosta Gold Standard’ (Plantain Lily). Accordingly, the Royal Horticultural Society (founded in 1804 as the Horticultural Society of London, UK) properly gave the Captain Kirk Hosta a Garden Award of Merit in 2012.

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