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Hosta sieboldiana
Also called Siebold’s Hosta
Siebold's plantain lily is a hardy, clump-forming perennial with large blue-grey leaves, native to Japan and grown mainly for its foliage. Give it shade, moist soil and protection from slugs.
Hosta sieboldiana, Siebold's plantain lily, is a species of hosta native to Japan. A putative variety, Hosta sieboldiana var. elegans (called the giant blue hosta), has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit, as has a putative variety of its synonym; Hosta fortunei var. aureomarginata, the gold-edged plantain lily. The cultivars 'Blue Angel', 'Blue Mammoth', and 'Olive Bailey Langdon' have also gained the RHS Award of Garden Merit.
Narrowleaf plantain lily · Fragrant plantain lily · Siebold's Plantain Lily · Blue plantain lily · Vascular Plants
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hosta sieboldiana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
