This hosta appears on the
Hosta Library website, It is a plant from Japan which
may actually be
H. longipes var. caduca (Saikoku
Iwa Gibōshi). According to the picture, it seems to be a
small size plant with narrow, green foliage which comes
to a point and has slightly wavy margins. The petioles
are a dark purplish-red in color.
Mikiko Lockwood in an article on The Hosta Library titled,
A Little About Japanese Hosta Terms defines the term iwa as rock, Iwa Gibōshi or
H. longipes. |