(Hydrangeaceae)
Hydrangea glabrifolia  BSWJ3869

Description

Originally collected as H. lobbii, but altered as the plant is so different, in only forming a small shrub around a meter tall and wide with reddish brown stems bearing small ovate to orbicular stiff thick textured evergreen serrulate leaves. Bearing many terminal small cymes of white both sterile and fertile flowers. From one of our collections from an amazing terrain of stunted trees, at the top of mount Pulog the highest mountain on Luzon Philippines in the winter of 1996. Best grown in a drained fertile soil with some moisture retention in sun or light shade out of freezing winds.