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Hosta tsushimensis N.Fujita

Tsushima Plantain Lily

Asparagaceae · Japan · listed by its genus as a temperate garden plant

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About the genus · Hosta

Hosta is a genus of plants commonly known as hostas, plantain lilies and occasionally by the Japanese name gibōshi. Hostas are widely cultivated as shade-tolerant foliage plants. The genus is placed in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae, and is native to northeast Asia. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Hosta", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as a temperate garden plant, listed under the genus Hosta in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “perennial”, “temperate”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Hosta in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “perennial”, “temperate”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 6 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 6 of the 6 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeJapan · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker34.215, 129.269 · in the densest population, 6 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“perennial” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 6 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 6 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 6 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Motohiro Sunouchi, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (5).

Other Hosta 19 in the reference

Hosta albofarinosa White Powder Hosta Hosta capitata Hosta capitata Ilwol hosta Photo: CC BY-SA, Marco SchmidtHosta clausa Hosta clausa Closed-flower hosta Photo: CC BY, Shu Suehiro Hosta hypoleuca White-backed Hosta Hosta jonesii Dadohae hosta Hosta kikutii Asparagaceae Hosta kiyosumiensis Hosta kiyosumiensis Kiyosumi Mountain Hosta Photo: CC0, DaderotHosta lancifolia Hosta lancifolia Narrow-leaf plantain-lily Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizHosta longipes Hosta longipes Iwa Giboshi Photo: CC BY, pavlaki1968 Hosta longissima Narrow-leaf hosta Hosta minor Hosta minor Minor hosta Photo: CC BY-SA, SalicynaHosta plantaginea Hosta plantaginea Fragrant plantain lily Photo: CC BY, Sara Patton all 20 ›

Names & registers

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidataiNaturalist

The record

Family
Asparagaceae
Described by
N.Fujita
Native to
Japan
Wild records
6 in range · 6 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-226 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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