Taxon:
Hydrangea serrata (Thunb.) Ser. var. serrata
Summary
Verified:
07/13/2011
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993-. Flora of Japan.
Common names
English
tea-of-heaven – Japanese Rōmaji
yama-ajisai – Swedish
purpurhortensia –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Japan | Honshu | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Japan | Kyushu | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Japan | Shikoku | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Korea, South | Cheju | |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | also cult. |
Native
Asia-Temperate
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EASTERN ASIA:
Japan [Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku], Korea, South [Cheju]
Cultivated
(also cult.)
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Environmental | ornamental | fide Baileya 4:174. 1956, as Hydrangea macrophylla subsp. serrata; Dict Gard, as Hydrangea macrophylla subsp. serrata; Krussmann, as Hydrangea macrophylla subsp. serrata | Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening Note: = Hydrangea serrata (Thunb.) Ser. |
Medicines | source of phyllodulcin | fide Import Medicinal Pl, as Hydrangea macrophylla var. thunbergii | Farnsworth, N. R. & D. D. Soejarto. 1988. Global importance of medicinal plants (unpublished draft manuscript rev. 23) Note: = Hydrangea macrophylla var. thunbergii |