Hydrangea petiolaris

The climbing hydrangea ( Hydrangea petiolaris ), written in the botanical literature Climbing hydrangea is a flowering plant in the family of hydrangea plants ( Hydrangeaceae ).

Occurrence

The climbing hydrangea is native to Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Today they can be found as an ornamental plant in gardens in Europe and North America.

Features

The Climbing hydrangea can climb 12 to 15 feet tall with sprossbürtiger adventitious roots and are up to 5 meters wide. Without climbing way it forms an up to 2 meters high, hemispherical deciduous bush. The roundish to broadly ovate leaves are 5-10 inches long. The bark of older branches and trunks rolled in a characteristic way in layers from.

The plant is lush flowering; First flowers set after about 5 to 8 years to life. The numbers that appear in early summer inflorescences are flat, 15 to 25 cm wide panicles. Each inflorescence has next to small, 4 - to 5 -fold hermaphrodite flowers some marginal, much larger, sterile, snow white and mostly 4 -fold flowers that reach about 3 cm wide. The flowers of the climbing hydrangea provide food for butterflies, bumblebees and bees. The fruits are formed as capsules.

System

• Jost Fitschen: woody flora ( 8th ed ). Heidelberg, Quelle & Meyer, 1987. ISBN 3-494-01151-6