Hosta kikutii polyneuron 'Albomarginata'
 

This is a duplicate, incorrect or outdated name for either H. 'Shirofukurin Shikoku' or H.  'Shirofukurin Wakayama'.

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).

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.

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H. kikutii 'Kifurkurin'

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H. kikutii polyneuron 'Shirofukurin Shikoku'

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H. kikutii polyneuron 'Shirofukurin Wakayama'

Herb wrote that " ...two H. kikutii plants, each with white (cream in the spring) margins, were obtained from Watanabe Nursery...in 1988. Both plants were labeled H. kikutii polyneuron 'Albomarginata'. 'Albomarginata' is an invalid name. Furthermore, the two plants differ in many ways and came from two different areas of Japan. I would suggest renaming these plants 'Shirofukurin' (meaning white-edged) and the area where the plants were found (Shikoku or Wakayama)...H. kikutii polyneuron 'Shirofukurin Shikoku'...has long narrow lance leaves, seven inches long and one and one-half inches wide with ten pairs of veins and a white edge, one-fourth of an inch wide. The petiole is shorter than the leaf blade....All three of these plants have wavy leaves and variegated edges - they are jewels in any hosta lover's garden!"





 

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