This non-registered cultivar from
Japan has a
H. venusta background. It forms a
miniature size mound and bears purple flowers in July. Mikiko Lockwood in an article on The Hosta Library titled,
A Little About Japanese Hosta Terms defines the term shirofukurin or shiro fukurin as white-edge(d) or
white-margin(ed) and the term otome as maiden, 'Otome Gibōshi' or
H. venusta. |