| This cultivar is a sport of H. longipes found in
Japan. It is a miniature size hosta with green foliage that has
a white marginal variegation. Mikiko Lockwood in an article on The Hosta Library titled,
A Little About Japanese Hosta Terms defines the term iwa as rock, Iwa Gibōshi or
H. longipes and the term shirofukurin or shiro fukurin as white-edge(d) or
white-margin(ed). |
