Hosta
'Ogon'
An article by
W. George Schmid
in
The Hosta Journal
(1996 Vol. 27 No. 2) states that This is a duplicate, incorrect or outdated name for
Hosta
'
Ogon Koba
'.
Mikiko Lockwood in an article on The Hosta Library titled,
A Little About Japanese Hosta Terms
defines the term
koba
as small leaf, 'Koba Gibōshi' or
H. sieboldii
and the term
ogon
or
oogon
as gold or yellow.
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