Hosta montana
'Chirifu'
An article by
W. George Schmid
in
The Hosta Journal
(1996 Vol. 27 No. 2) states that This is a duplicate, incorrect or outdated name for
Hosta montana
'
Chirifu Oba
'.
Mikiko Lockwood in an article on The Hosta Library titled,
A Little About Japanese Hosta Terms
defines the term
chirifu
as speckled, mottled or overall variegated and the term
oba
or
ooba
as large leaf, 'Oba Gibōshi' or
H. montana
.
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