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				 This non-registered cultivar of 
				unidentified origin  is by 
				Kenji Watanabe of 
				Japan. It forms a small size mound with narrow, variably streaked foliage. The leaves are 
				elliptic when young and lanceolate at maturity. Medium purple 
				flowers bloom from late July into August. 
				Mikiko Lockwood in an article on The Hosta Library titled, 
			
			A Little About Japanese Hosta Terms  defines the term komachi as a beauty or a belle. 
			 
  An article by Warren I. Pollock in 
			The 
				Hosta Journal (2008 Vol. 39 No. 2) quotes 
W. George Schmid: "H. 'Tsugaru Komachi' ('The Little Maiden from Tsugaru')...is variegated 
but unstable.  Though [the green form] is most commonly known by 'Aoba Komachi' [Ao 
means "green" and Aoba means green leaf], this name may not be specific 
enough because there are other all-green hostas that look just like the 
reverted, green form of 'Tsugaru Komachi'...My opinion is it should be 'Aoba Tsugaru Komanchi' to indicate it is specifically the green reversion of 'Tsugaru Komachi'." 
			 
  
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