Hosta: The Flowering Foliage Plant

by Diana Grenfell

Book Overview

This book by a founding member of the British Hosta and Hemerocallis Society takes a historical approach. Ms. Grenfell traces the introduction of hostas from Japan through Macao to Europe two hundred years ago, detailing the work of nineteenth and twentieth century botanists on the genus, and tracing the sequence of extraordinary mistakes and coincidences which have caused such havoc in hosta nomenclature. There are full and detailed descriptions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881921882
• ISBN13: 9780881921885
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.7" x 10.0"