Registered by Dr. Fumio Maekawa of Japan and The American Hosta Society in 1987, this cultivar has H. 'Helonioides' in its genetic background. It is a small size hosta which has dark green foliage with creamy white marginal variegation. Purple flowers bloom in August

The Hosta Handbook by Mark Zilis (2000) believes that it is the same plant as the classic H. 'Ginko Craig' while the plant that was sold in the U.S. for many years as H. heloniodes albo-picta is actually H. rodefolia.