hydrangea
Noun
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Any of various deciduous or evergreen shrubs of the genus Hydrangea (synset 112808961)
subtypes:
- climbing hydrangea, hydrangea anomala - deciduous climber with aerial roots having white to creamy flowers in fairly flat heads
- hydrangea arborescens, wild hydrangea - deciduous shrub with creamy white flower clusters; eastern United States
- hortensia, hydrangea macrophylla hortensis - deciduous shrub bearing roundheaded flower clusters opening green and aging to pink or blue
- fall-blooming hydrangea, hydrangea paniculata - deciduous shrub or small tree with pyramidal flower clusters
- climbing hydrangea, hydrangea petiolaris - deciduous climber with aerial roots having large flat flower heads
- carpenteria, carpenteria californica - California evergreen shrub having glossy opposite leaves and terminal clusters of a few fragrant white flowers
- decumaria barbara, decumaria barbata, decumary - woody climber of southeastern United States having white flowers in compound terminal clusters
- deutzia - any of various shrubs of the genus Deutzia having usually toothed opposite leaves and shredding bark and white or pink flowers in loose terminal clusters
belongs to: genus hydrangea - type genus of Hydrangeaceae; large genus of shrubs and some trees and vines with white or pink or blue flower clusters; sometimes placed in family Saxifragaceae
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