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Descriptions (from various sources):
=H. 'Thomas Hogg' (536-HN).
As the story goes, Thomas Hogg imported it in North America (1875) after obtaining it from street vendors in Yokohama.
JN: Otafuku Giboshi = "moon-faced (rounded) hosta".
Leaves have blunt-pointed tips, green with a white margin; purplish-lilac flwrs.
It is probably the first hosta to come directly from Japan into the United States. Moderately stoloniferous, a single plant will in time spread into large colonies. Its species epithet was derived from decorus = nice, ornate. (Plant 18x12)
Also known as 'Thomas Hogg', it has blunt tipped dark green leaves with white margins. Somewhat stoloniferous. Purple flowers. 10-75% shade.
Progeny:
'Betsy King' = 'decorata' x PP
'Decorata Normalis' sport/gg
'Dorothy ' = PP x 'Fortunei'
'Goddess of Athena' selfed
'Pancakes' = PP x 'plantaginea'
'Spring Sensation' sport/yy