Hosta atropurpurea Hosta capitata Hosta cathayana Hosta clausa Hosta crassifolia Hosta crispula Hosta decorata Hosta fluctuans Hosta fortunei Hosta gracillima Hosta helenioides Hosta hypoleuca Hosta ibukiensis Hosta jonesii Hosta kikutii Hosta lancifolia Hosta longipes Hosta longissima Hosta minor Hosta montana Hosta nakaiana Hosta nigrescens Hosta opipara Hosta plantaginea Hosta pulchella Hosta pycnophylla Hosta rectifolia Hosta rohdeifolia Hosta rupifraga Hosta sieboldiana Hosta sieboldii Hosta tardiflora Hosta tardiva Hosta tibai Hosta tokudama Hosta tortifrons Hosta tsushimensis Hosta undulata Hosta ventricosa Hosta venusta Hosta yingeri

Hosta occurs as genus of astir Forty mintage of lily-lilylike plants in the personal Agavaceae, native to northeast Asia. A scientific title is besides utilized when a most common title; it used to be that it were as well another time referred to as "Plantain lily", currently obsolete. A Japanese title Giboshi is too utilized within English to the little extent.

It is herbaceous plants, with wide lanceolate leaves 6–50 cm long and Four–30 cm broad. A flowers are produced in an upright panicle up to 60 cm tall; a single flowers come normally nodding, Two–Five cm yearn, by having hexad flower petal, light-green, whiten, purplish or even pinkish withwithin colour; richly perfumed in a few metal money, however mostly scentless.

Cultivation and uses
Though several Hostas originate inside China, many of a metal money that provide the modern shade garden plants were introduced from either Japan to Europe by Philipp Franz von Siebold in the mid-19th century.

Hostas come widely-cultivated ground cover plants; cultivars with golden- or even white-variegated leaves are especially prized. A Western Hosta Society & a British Hosta & Hemerocallis Society trend lines Hosta Display Gardens, typically inside botanical gardens.

Hostas come notoriously the favorite food for slugs and snails, which commonly induced extensive damage to hosta collections inside gardens.

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