Hydrangea anomala
Hydrangea anomala is a climbing woody plant from the family of hydrangea plants. It is sometimes used for their flowers as ornamental plant. The natural range is in Asia.
Description
Hydrangea anomala is a 2 to 4 meters high climbing shrub that can reach heights up to 12 meters. The branches are gray-brown and bare. The bark is thin and peels off on older branches. The leaves have a 2 to 8 inches long, bare or finely hairy stem. The leaf blade is simple, 6-17 cm long and 3-10 cm wide, elliptic, oblong, ovate or ovate, acuminate, with wedge-shaped, rounded or slightly heart-shaped base and densely serrated leaf edge. The upper leaf surface is bare, the underside is also glabrous or slightly pubescent along the nerves with beards in the nerve axils. There shall be six to eight pairs of nerves. Dry leaves are yellow-brown.
The flowers are arranged in umbrella-shaped, 12 to 15 centimeters ( fruiting to 30 centimeters ) wide, fluffy hairy cymes. The numerous sterile flowers are 1.5 to 3.7 inches wide. They have four 1 to 2.2 centimeters long and 1 to 2.2 centimeters wide, white, wide inverted - ovate to rounded, full leaves sepals. The numerous, creamy white fertile flowers have a 1 to 1.5 millimeters long, bell-shaped calyx tube with 0.5 to 0.8 mm long, broadly ovate to triangular calyx teeth. The petals are connected kaputzenartig at the top. The nine to 18 stamens are of unequal length, the anthers are small and roundish. The ovary is inferior, two or rarely three pens are bent back and are about 1.5 millimeters long on the fruit. The follicles are urn -shaped. They have a diameter of 3 to 4.5 millimeters and a truncated tip. The seeds are 0.7 to 1 millimeter in size, brownish, elliptic to oblong and compressed. They have a enclosing the seed wing. The species flowers from May to June and the fruits ripen from September to October.
Distribution and ecology
The natural range extends from the temperate to the tropical zone of Asia. One finds the way into the Chinese provinces of Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan and Zhejiang, Taiwan, on the Japanese islands of Hokkaido and Honshu, in Bhutan, Nepal and Myanmar and the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. It grows in cool moist forests in valleys, along rivers or on rocky mountain slopes at altitudes of 500-2900 meters on well drained, moist to wet, acidic to neutral, moderately fertile soil in light shade, cool to cold locations. The species is frost hardy.
System
Hydrangea anomala is a species of the genus Hydrangea ( Hydrangea ) in the family of hydrangea plants ( Hydrangeaceae ), subfamily Hydrangeoideae, Tribe Hydrangeae. It was first described by David Don in 1825.
Use
It is sometimes used for their decorative flowers as ornamental tree. The leaves are used medically.