Hydrangea pottingeri Prain
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Hydrangea pottingeri (synonym Hydrangea chinensis) is a species of flowering plant in the family Hydrangeaceae. It is a shrub native to eastern India (Arunachal Pradesh), Myanmar, southeastern China (Anhui, Fujian, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang), and Taiwan. It grows in sparse to dense temperate and subtropical forests in valleys and on mountain tops and slopes from 300 to 2,000 metres (980 to 6,560 ft) elevation.
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About the genus · Hydrangea
Hydrangea is a genus of more than 70 species of flowering plants native to Asia and the Americas. Hydrangea is also used as the common name for the genus; some are also often called hortensia. The genus was first described from Virginia in North America, but by far the greatest species diversity is in eastern Asia, notably China, Korea, and Japan. More on Wikipedia ›
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Cultivation
Grouped as a temperate garden plant, listed under the genus Hydrangea in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “shrub”, “temperate”.
How this section is made
Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.
Group. Listed under the genus Hydrangea in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “shrub”, “temperate”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.
Climate across the habitat
Natural habitat
This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the key of the name Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 3645154 (Hydrangea pottingeri Prain, 0 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.
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Related
Other Hydrangea 42 in the reference
Hydrangea alternifolia Hydrangeaceae Photo: CC BY, pavlaki1968 Hydrangea ampla Chinese hydrangea-vine 
Hydrangea anomala Japanese Climbing-hydrangea Photo: CC BY, 黃美滿
Hydrangea arborescens Smooth hydrangea Photo: CC BY, Andrew Conboy
Hydrangea arguta Kanawao Photo: CC BY, Kevin Faccenda
Hydrangea aspera Rough-leaf hydrangea Photo: CC BY, 五色鳥
Hydrangea barbara Climbing hydrangea Photo: CC0, Odile V
Hydrangea bifida Hydrangeaceae Photo: CC BY, Philippe Giabbanelli
Hydrangea bretschneideri Hydrangeaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Vonundzu
Hydrangea caerulea Hydrangeaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Bouba at French Wikipedia
Hydrangea cinerea Ashy hydrangea Photo: CC BY, sblumen
Hydrangea fauriei Hydrangeaceae Photo: CC BY, Cheng-Te Hsu all 43 ›Names & registers
Also known as Hydrangea chloroleuca; Hortensia chinensis; Hydrangea chinensis var. patentihirsuta; Hydrangea chinensis f. umbellata; Hydrangea stenophylla and 11 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)
The record
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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Hydrangea pottingeri Prain (plant_name_id 2855763), read from Kew's names filegbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedwcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04gbif.occurrences nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; 0 records of GBIF's key 3645154, Hydrangea pottingeri Prain (Kew's file holds it as Hydrangea pottingeri Prain (accepted)): GBIF occurrence search APIclimate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the rangewikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 791658-1, POWO 791658-1wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22inat.taxon not askedinat.photos.wild not askedinat.photos.cultivated not askedgbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedcommons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshotEvery source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence.