Mikiko Lockwood in an article on The Hosta Library titled,
A Little About Japanese Hosta Terms defines the term
aojiku as green petiole and the term iwa as rock or Iwa
Gibōshi which is the Japanese name for the species
H. longipes.
This
cultivar name was mentioned in the Lockwood article with no further
details but we can probably expect that it is a plant with green
petioles found in a rocky environment and is related to
H. longipes. |