Two decades later, the Japanese botanist Fukuyama Noriaki also collected pleiones from Mt. Hsiakalo in Hsinchu. This time the flowers were a pure, snowy white, and the onion-like bulbs were a glistening green color, unlike the previously discovered purple bulbs. Overjoyed at his discovery, Fukuyama named this new variety the snow-white pleione (Pleione formosana var.
又過二十年，日人福山伯明也在新竹霞喀羅大山採集到一葉蘭，這回花朵純白冰清，不帶一絲雜色，洋蔥般的球莖油綠發亮，與過去被發現的紫紅色球莖不同，福山喜出望外，將之命名為雪白一葉蘭。