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Hydrangea (Hydrangea serrata)
Family: Hydrangeaceae | Edibility: Edible (2/5)
Bloom Color: Blue, Pink. Main Bloom Time: Early summer, Early spring, Late summer, Late spring, Mid summer, Mid spring. Form: Rounded.
Edible Parts & Harvest Seasons
Edible Parts: Leaves, Shoots
Harvest Seasons: Early Summer, Spring
Flavor & Culinary Uses
sweet like those of sspp thunbergii or amagiana or those of H. — Young leaves and shoots - cooked.; These leaves do not become sweet like those of sspp thunbergii or amagiana or those of H.
Habitat & North American Range
Woodland to 1500 metres in the mountains of C. and S. Japan. (Zone 5, Zone 6, Zone 7, Zone 8, Zone 9)