Mikiko Lockwood in an article on The Hosta Library titled,
A Little About Japanese Hosta Terms defines the term hosoba
as narrow leaf and the term otome as maiden, 'Otome Gibōshi' or
H. venusta.
This
cultivar name was mentioned in the Lockwood article with no further
details but we can probably expect that it is a plant with narrow
leaves and is related to
H. venusta. |