Decumaria

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Decumaria' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/decumaria/). Accessed 2025-01-19.

Family

Hydrangeaceae

Species in genus

Glossary

ovary: Lowest part of the carpel containing the ovules; later developing into the fruit.

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Decumaria' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/decumaria/). Accessed 2025-01-19.

Decumaria sinensis bearing its faintly-scented white panicles of flower against a wall at Abbotsbury Subtropical Garden, Dorset, UK (August 2021). Image Jack Aldridge.

Editorial Note

A completely new and much enlarged account of Hydrangea is being prepared for publication in 2024. It will include all species previously placed in Decumaria, Dichroa, Pileostegia, Platycrater and Schizophragma.

JMG, July 2023.

A genus of two species, one American the other Chinese, both climbers that cling to their supports by aerial roots. The name is derived from decimus and refers to the number of the various parts of the flower. Of the sepals, petals and cells of the ovary there are up to ten and of stamens twenty to thirty.

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