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Hydrangea anomala subsp.
petiolaris
Climbing Hydrangea
Hydrangeaceae
Located behind Jones Nutrition building growing near loading dock
on wall.
- leaves opposite, cordate, with serrated margins
- leaves dark green, glossy
- stems green-yellow when young, becoming smooth and brown
- stems have root-like holdfasts between nodes that allow plant to
climb surfaces
- buds imbricate, 2-scaled, brown-green
- flowers arranged in a flat-topped corymb with an outer ring of large,
white sterile florets; inner flowers small and fertile
- fruit are brown capsules, persistent
- bark becomes brown and peels with age, unique among vines
- habit is a large woody vine with vertical main stems and horizontal
side stems; when grown on a surface the lateral branches project outwards
for a "3-D" effect
View Hydrangea
anomala subsp. petiolaris page in the UConn Plant Database
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