Hydrangea is a diuretic that has the reputation for dissolving kidney stones and relieving kidney.

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Plant Description:Hydrangea Arborescens.

Hydrangea Root Extract INCI Name Hydrangea Arborescens Root Extract Radix Dichroae Extract Dichroa febrifuga Lour photo picture image An evergreen Shrub growing 1-2 m tall. Branchlets, petioles, and veins glabrous or crisped pubescent. Petiole 1.5-5 cm; leaf blade sometimes purplish abaxially, elliptic, obovate, elliptic-oblong, or lanceolate, 6-25 * 2-10 cm, papery, abaxially glabrous or crisped pubescent along veins, rarely sparsely hirsute, adaxially glabrous, secondary veins 8-10 on both sides of midvein, base cuneate, margin serrate to coarsely so, rarely undulate, apex acute to acuminate. Inflorescence a corymbose panicle, 3-20 cm. Flower buds obovoid, 6-10 mm; pedicel 3-5 mm. Calyx lobes 4-6, broadly deltoid, apex acute. Petals reflexed at maturity, blue or white, oblong-elliptic, slightly fleshy. Stamens 10-20; filaments connate when young, free at maturity, filiform; anthers ellipsoid. Ovary inferior to 3/4 so. Styles 4(-6), clavate; stigma oblong. Berry dark blue when mature, 3-7 mm in diam. Seeds ca. l mm. Fl. Feb-Apr, fr. May-Aug.

 It is hardy to zone 9. It is in leaf all year, in flower from June to August, and the seeds ripen from August to October. The flowers are hermaphrodite (has both male and female organs)

 The plant prefers light (sandy), medium (loamy) and heavy (clay) soils. The plant prefers acid, neutral and basic (alkaline) soils and can grow in very acid soil. It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade. It requires moist soil.

 Cultivation details:An easily grown plant, succeeding in an open loamy soil. The flowers vary in colour according to the type of soil they grow in, the best blue colour is formed when plants are in very acid soils. One report says that this plant is probably not hardy outdoors in Britain whilst another says that some provenances tolerate temperatures down to about -5 and another report says that the forms in cultivation are only fully hardy in southern Cornwall. This same report goes on to say that those forms probably do not belong to D. febrifuga in the strict sense. This plant is cultivated in Russia as an anti-malarial herb.

 Propagation:Seed - we have no information on this species but suggest sowing the seed in a greenhouse in spring and only just covering it. Do not allow the compost to dry out. When they are large enough to handle, prick the seedlings out into individual pots and grow them on in the greenhouse for at least their first winter. Plant them out into their permanent positions in late spring or early summer, after the last expected frosts. Cuttings. No details are given, we suggest trying in August with almost ripe wood in a frame.

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last edit date:6th,July.2009.