hydrangea macrophylla hortensis

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   deciduous shrub bearing roundheaded flower clusters opening green and aging to pink or blue

   Synonymshortensia

   Broaderhydrangea

   Part ofgenus Hydrangea

Questions about hydrangea macrophylla hortensis

What does hydrangea macrophylla hortensis mean?

hydrangea macrophylla hortensis means "deciduous shrub bearing roundheaded flower clusters opening green and aging to pink or blue".

What is another word for hydrangea macrophylla hortensis?

Close synonyms include hortensia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hydrangea macrophylla hortensis a common word?

hydrangea macrophylla hortensis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.