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5 unusual facts about Hydrangea


Auckland Botanic Gardens

Here some extensive collections have been created of Hydrangea, azalea, Deutzia and other genera.

Climbing hydrangea

Climbing hydrangea is a common name of two species of Hydrangea, and also of related species in other genera.

Experimental Geodetic Payload

After launch, the satellite was renamed Ajisai (the Japanese name for the Hydrangea plant), but it is most commonly known by the acronym EGP.

Festival de Gramado

Officialized by the National Cinema Institute (Instituto Nacional de Cinema - INC) on January 1973, the Gramado Film Festival was originally launched at the Hydrangeas Festivity (Festa das Hortênsias), where film exhibitions were promoted between 1969 and 1971.

Velda Newman

Newman has received numerous national and international quilting awards, including her quilt "Hydrangea" being listed as one of "The 20th Century's 100 Best Quilts".


Dihydroxystilbene

3,4′-Dihydroxystilbene, a stilbenoid found in the roots of Hydrangea macrophylla

Drumgoole Plaza

The landscaping includes more than 20 new trees, including goldenrains, honey locusts and hollies; 1,100 shrubs; perennials; and ornamental grasses such as winter hazel, hydrangea, blue star, and striped ribbon grass.

Exbury Gardens

Other features include the Hydrangea Walk, the Rock Garden, Iris Garden, the Sundial Garden which follows an exotic planting, and a Camellia Walk (which takes visitors to a path alongside Beaulieu river and back via the pond).

Kyoto Botanical Garden

As of 2007, it contains about 120,000 plants representing some 12,000 species, and is organized into the following major areas: Bamboo Garden; Bonsai Exhibit; Camellia Garden; Cherry Trees; European Style Garden; Flower Bed; Hydrangea Garden; Japanese Iris Garden; Japanese Native Plants; Lotus Pond; Nakaragi-no-mori Pond (trees native to the Yamashiro Basin); Peony Garden; Perennial and Useful Plants Garden; Sunken Garden; and the Uma Grove.

Poroti

There are also a number of flower growing operations growing Sandersonia, calla lilies, orchids and hydrangeas for export markets all over the world.

Umbelliferone

Umbelliferone occurs in many familiar plants from the Apiaceae (Umbelliferae) family such as carrot, coriander and garden angelica, as well as in plants from other families, such as the mouse-ear hawkweed (Hieracium pilosella, Asteraceae) or the bigleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla, Hydrangeaceae, under the name hydrangine).


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