Hydrangea anomala (Hydrangea anomala)
Description
Hydrangea anomala is a 2 to 4 meter high climbing shrub that can reach heights up to 12 meters. The branches are greyish brown and bare. The bark is thin and peels off from older branches. The leaves have a 2 to 8 inches long, bare or finely hairy stem. The leaf blade is simple, 6 to 17 inches long and 3 to 10 inches wide, elliptic, oblong ovate or ovate, acuminate, with a wedge-shaped, rounded or slightly heart-shaped base and densely serrated leaf margin. The upper side of the leaf is bare, the underside is also bald or slightly fluffy along the nerves with beards on the nerve axles. Six to eight pairs of nerves are formed. Dry leaves are tawny.The flowers are arranged in umbrella-shaped, 12 to 15 centimeters fruiting to 30 centimeters wide, fluffy hairy Trugdolden The numerous sterile flowers are 1.5 to 3.7 inches wide. They have four 1 to 2.2 inches long and 1 to 2.2 inches wide, white, broad obovate to roundish, entire marginal 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 millimeters long, broad ovate to triangular calyxes. The petals are connected hooded at the top. The nine to 18 stamensare unevenly long, the dust bags are small and round. The ovary is inferior, the two or rarely three stylets 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 millimeters in size, brownish, elliptical to oblong and compressed. They have a wing surrounding the seed. The species flowers from May to June, the fruits ripen from September to October.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum:
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Cornales
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Family: Hydrangeaceae
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Genus: Hydrangea
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