I remember when we we're young, my brother and I always run in my mom's garden. No matter how my mom told us to stop, we still kept on running until she got very mad. One time, she was annoyed when my brother accidentally hit some flowers on one side of the garden. According to my mother, that plant was the hydrangea. It is a genus composed of 70-75 species of flowering plants native to Southern and eastern Asia like
China and Japan, and North and South America. These plants are mostly shrubs that grow from 1-3 meters tall, however, there are also small trees as well as lianas reaching up to 30 m by climbing trees. These genus are either deciduous or evergreen. Mom added that the flowers are produced mainly from early spring to late autumn.
Flowers of this
Hydrangea genus grow in flowerheads or corymbs or panicles at the ends of the stems. In most species of Hydrangea, flowerheads contain two types of flowers. These are small fertile flowers in the middle of the flowerhead, and a large, sterile bract-like flowers in a ring around the edge of each flowerhead. She also mentioned that other species have all the flowers fertile and of the same size. Flowers are mostly white, but some flowers can be blue, red, pink, or purple.
