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Deutzia crenata Siebold & Zucc.

Crenate pride-of-Rochester, Crenate pride-of-Rochester (EN), Deutzia, Gekerbte Deutzie (DE)

Climate known 83 photographs
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Summary

Deutzia crenata is a species of flowering shrub in the hydrangea family (Hydrangeaceae). It is native to Japan, where it is called unohana, and where it is common and found throughout the country. Its natural habitat is in forest edges and cliffs. It has been commonly cultivated outside its native range, and has naturalized from plantings in China and North America.

Text from Wikipedia, “Deutzia crenata”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Deutzia

Deutzia is a genus of about 60 species of flowering plants in the family Hydrangeaceae, native to eastern and central Asia, and Central America and also Europe. By far the highest species diversity is in China, where 50 species occur.

Text from Wikipedia, “Deutzia”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Hydrangeaceae
Described by
Siebold & Zucc.
Native to
Japan
Wild records
1177 in range· 1068 open

At a glance

Warmest month
28°C
Aug, mean day; nights 21 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
1898mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Sep 252 mm (CHELSA)
Light
15–34DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: a summer growing season, March and May to October in the northern hemisphere (March and May to October at the habitat, northern). Habitat rain 1898 mm a year, wettest September at 252 mm, driest December at 65 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 15 to 34 mol/m²/day. Cold floor -6.1 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Deutzia canescens K.Koch; Deutzia crenata f. barbinervis Nakai; Deutzia crenata f. hebecarpa (Nakai) H.Hara; Deutzia crenata f. lasiocarpa Nakai; Deutzia crenata f. macrocarpa Nakai and 13 more.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: a summer growing season, March and May to October in the northern hemisphere (March and May to October at the habitat, northern).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the year's rain (1416 mm of 1898 mm) falls in March and May to October, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 18.4 °C against a yearly mean of 13.4 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: November to April and September.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 1898 mm a year, wettest September at 252 mm, driest December at 65 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

1898 mm a year at the habitat, 1416 mm of it March and May to October. Wettest month September at 252 mm, driest December at 65 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 1400 mm to 2958 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 15 to 34 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 15 to 34 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 13, the highest 90th-percentile month 36).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor -6.1 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is -6.1 °C, the absolute minimum -11.7 °C, about 96 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 34.4 °C. Monthly means: coldest night -2.5 °C in January (across the envelope cells -9.5 °C to 3.0 °C), warmest day 27.5 °C in August (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: -6.1 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 58 to 67% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 5 °C in Jan to 28 °C in Aug; mean night from -3 °C in Jan to 21 °C in Aug. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest night. 1898 mm of rain a year, most in Sep. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 921 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -11.7 °C and the 99th-percentile day 34.4 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-20°-10°10°20°30°40°frost34.4° 99th-percentile day (undated)-11.7° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400mm rainDLI 15–34RH 58–67 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 921 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C5 / -0–96 / 1–99 / 5–1215 / 11–1720 / 16–2223 / 20–2526 / 23–2828 / 24–3024 / 21–2619 / 15–2113 / 9–168 / 3–11
Night °C-3 / -10–3-2 / -9–31 / -4–66 / 2–1111 / 7–1516 / 12–1920 / 16–2321 / 17–2418 / 14–2111 / 7–165 / 0–110 / -6–6
Rain mm73 / 45–20989 / 50–166146 / 89–220142 / 101–229170 / 122–274221 / 156–369246 / 158–386202 / 134–320252 / 185–375179 / 121–247113 / 72–22265 / 43–211
DLI17 / 15–1922 / 20–2427 / 25–2933 / 31–3534 / 32–3631 / 28–3431 / 29–3433 / 29–3525 / 23–2721 / 19–2417 / 15–1915 / 13–18
RH %58 / 54–6458 / 55–6359 / 56–6159 / 57–6161 / 59–6365 / 62–6867 / 64–7066 / 63–6965 / 62–6862 / 59–6560 / 58–6359 / 55–63

Each figure is the median across the 921 grid cells holding the 1156 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 1078:6381 (36.075, 139.075). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -11.7 °C, 1st-percentile night -6.1 °C, 99th-percentile day 34.4 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 921 distinct grid cells holding the 1156 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1078:6381 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 36.00_139.375, lapse-corrected +13 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 277 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeJapan· introduced: Great Britain, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, China South-Central, China Southeast, Korea, Assam, East Himalaya, West Himalaya, Myanmar, Illinois, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode I., Vermont, West Virginia, Utah, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
Kew's description“shrub” · “temperate”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker35.474, 139.278 · in the densest population, 565 records (48% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 1177 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 1068 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 2 km away. 429 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 21 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 1177 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Serenella Linares, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) Marco Mussita, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Tristan Jobin, some rights reserved (CC BY); no rights reserved · CC0; (c) Alaina Krakowiak, some rights reserved (CC BY).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Deutzia crenata, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Plant species first recognised as naturalised for New South Wales over the period 2000-2001
John R. Hosking, Barry J. Conn, Brendan J. Lepschi (2003) · Publication Server of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Goethe University Frankfurt)
First report of powdery mildew on Deutzia spp. in the UK
G. Denton, B. Henricot (2007) · Plant Pathology
Spatial Distribution Patterns and Ethnobotanical Knowledge of Farmland Demarcation Tree Species: A Case Study in the Niyodo River Area, Japan
Yoshinori Tokuoka, Fukuhiro Yamasaki, Kenichiro Kimura, Kiyokazu Hashigoe (2020) · Sustainability
Observations on the survival and longevity of adult Culex and Aedes mosquitoes fed on flowers of some nectar plants (II)
Fumio Harada, Kiyoki Moriya, Tatsuo Yabe (1972) · Medical Entomology and Zoology
Powdery Mildew of Crenate Deutzia Caused by Erysiphe deutziae in Korea
Mi-Jeong Park, Young‐Joon Choi, Seung‐Beom Hong, Hyeon‐Dong Shin (2010) · The Plant Pathology Journal
Anthropogenic legacies shaping the present composition of demarcation trees in a temperate upland field landscape in Japan
Yoshinori Tokuoka, Kenichiro Kimura, Mitsunori Oka (2022) · Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
First Report of Leaf Spot on Deutzia crenata Caused by Neopestalotiopsis ellipsospora in China
Longjiao Hu, Yang Li, Min Zhai, Ji-Ping Xuan (2022) · Plant Disease

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Deutzia 2 in the reference

History & registers

Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
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gbif.occurrences answeredGBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.3h4zam
climate answered
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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 106 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.