Siebold's Hosta🌿

A perennial in the asparagus family, endemic to Japan — found in mountain wetlands and forest edges from Hokkaidō to Kyūshū. Among the largest Hosta species, with blue-green ovate leaves 30–40 cm long. In summer, flower stalks reach nearly 1 m, bearing many white to pale-purple funnel-shaped flowers in racemes. The young leaves ('uru-i') are a major spring wild edible, especially in Tōhoku and Yamagata. In Western horticulture, an important parent of many shade-garden cultivars.

Identification Points

• ✓Large blue-green leaves 30–40 cm long with parallel venation
• ✓Flower stalk nearly 1 m with racemes of funnel-shaped white-lilac flowers
• ✓Young leaves are the wild edible 'uru-i'

Morphological TraitsAI-estimated, needs verification

Phylogenetic Positionキジカクシ科 →