(Hydrangeaceae)
Hydrangea kwangsiensis  BSWJ11717

Description

A variable species that we collected seed of from a small mountain range in the very north of Vietnam along the border with China in the autumn of 2006. Where they formed a small colony of upright shrubs to 1.2m tall well furbished with small ovate-elliptic thick textured leaves blue tinted on the reverse and their veins. With distinctly larger inflorescences than we had seen of blue lace-cap type cymes 10 cm across with large white blue flushed sterile florets on the perimeter. Easily grown in sun or light shade in any good moisture retentive fertile drained soil. Pink in alkaline and blue in acidic soils.