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Hydrangea anomala, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
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#1920 most planted

Hydrangea anomala

Japanese climbing-hydrangea · also Climbing hydrangea

Deciduous
14
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
2
cities
2.0 in
median trunk (5 cm, 1 measured)
11 yr
median age (100% have a planting date)

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Hydrangea anomala is a woody climbing plant native to the woodlands of the Himalaya, southern and central China, and northern Myanmar. It climbs up trees or rock faces using small aerial roots and has deciduous leaves. In mid-summer, it produces flat corymbs of creamy-white flowers with peripheral sterile white flowers.

Where it grows

Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.

  1. Boston · United States
    1310 yr—
  2. Helsinki · Finland
    1—2.0 in

Traits

Foliage
Deciduous
Mature height
39.4 ft
Blooms
Jul, Aug

Trunk diameters across every city: median 2.0 in, mean 2.0 in, 90th percentile 2.0 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.

Native range

Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.

Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests

  • Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests
  • Central China Loess Plateau mixed forests

Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

  • South Taiwan monsoon rain forests

Other Hydrangea in the catalogue

7 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.

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