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Kiyosumi Mountain Hosta

Hosta kiyosumiensis

Kiyosumi Mountain Hosta
Photo: Daderot, CC0
Family
Asparagaceae (Asparagus family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
Japan (C. Honshu)
Climate
temperate

About

Hosta kiyosumiensis (キヨスミギボウシ, kiyosumigiboushi) is a species of Hosta, found in Japan from Kanto south to Chubu and Kansai, and encompassing the entire central part of Honshu. Plants range from 30 to 45 cm in diameter, and up to 25 cm high. Petiole is 7.5–10 by 0.7 cm, erect, broadly grooved, keeled, triangular in cross section, green in color and at the base barely purple dotted. Leaves are 10–15 by 5–7.5 cm. Specimens exhibit many different leaf shapes from narrow-lanceolate to widely-ovate, with straight or wavy margins.

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White Powder Hosta · Ilwol Hosta · Plantain Lily · White Backed Hosta · Narrowleaf plantain lily · Minor Hosta · Fragrant plantain lily · Siebold's Plantain Lily · Siebold's Plantain Lily · Hosta 'Undulata' · Blue plantain lily · Mount Halla Hosta

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hosta kiyosumiensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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