This non-registered
cultivar is a sport of H. kikutii from Japan. It
is a medium size hosta with medium green colored leaves
that have a narrow chartreuse to yellow marginal variegation. Pale
lavender flowers bloom from late August into September.
We
went back and checked the original article and the name
was printed as H. 'Kifurkurin'.
Looking at
The Genus Hosta by Schmid (1991),
we found that this plant is actually H. 'Kifukurin'.
An article by Dr Ralph (Herb) Benedict
in
The
Hosta Journal (1992 Vol. 23 No. 1) discusses three forms
of H. kikutii brought from
Japan in
the Minnesota garden of Hideko Gowen.
Herb wrote that " ...in 1982 she obtained the yellow edged
one, H. kikutii 'Kifurkurin' - it was labeled H. kikutii 'Variegata'. 'Variegata' is
an invalid name from Mr Negishi. The plant has leaves eight inches long by four
inches wide. The leaf petiole is one and on-half to two times as long as the
leaf blade. It has a chartreuse margin about one-fourth of an inch wide and a
center which is a medium green. The bloom stalk is short and erect with a
typical bird-head shaped bud. It blooms in late August in
Michigan with
pale-lavender, wide-flared blooms....All three of these plants have wavy leaves
and variegated edges - they are jewels in any hosta lover's garden!"
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