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Hydrangea

Hydrangea macrophylla

Photo by SayaniSarkar
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Field Notes

Description:

Hydrangea macrophylla blossoms can be either pink, blue, or purple shades, depending on a pH-dependent mobilization and uptake of soil aluminium into the plants.This one was a shrub growing bellow a bridge at an altitude of 6710 Feet.Stems light brown and slightly woody because it is a shrub.Flowers in clusters.

Habitat:

These are pecies of flowering plants native to southern and eastern Asia Most.They are shrubs 1 to 3 meters tall, but some are small trees, and others lianas reaching up to 30 metres by climbing up trees. They can be either deciduous or evergreen, though the widely cultivated temperate species are all deciduous. Acidic soils produce blue flowers.

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Welcome to Noah! Beautiful hydrangea!
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PublishedMay 8, 2011

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