Schizophragma hydrangeoides

Japan, Korea

Adheres to rough surfaces such as masonry and tree bark using adhesive rootlets on the stem.

Part shade to full shade; moist soil; somewhat slow to establish.

Deciduous vine that can be used to climb up walls, arbors, trellises.

Opposite; simple, nearly round, coarsely serrate to dentate margin, blue-green, leaves 3-5 inches across. Yellow foliage in fall.

Buds are red-brown, pubescent with overlapping scales, .125 inches long.

Reddish brown stems provide winter interest.

Showy, 8-10 inch creamy white, flat topped,slightly drooping corymbs, with the outer flowers being sterile and showy, composed of a single petaloid sepal (4 petaloid sepals in Hydrangea anoma petiolaris), and the inner flowers small and dull white, flowering July-August, slightly later than H. petiolaris.

Insignificant fruit

Softwood cuttings or semi-hardwood cuttings.