Noun: climbing hydrangea
- Deciduous climber with aerial roots having large flat flower heads
"The climbing hydrangea scaled the brick chimney";
- Hydrangea petiolaris
- Deciduous climber with aerial roots having white to creamy flowers in fairly flat heads
"The climbing hydrangea covered the entire wall of the old house";
- Hydrangea anomala
- Climbing shrub with adhesive aerial roots having opposite leaves and small white flowers in terminal cymes; Himalayas to Taiwan and Japan
"The climbing hydrangea is valued for its self-clinging growth habit";
- Schizophragma hydrangeoides
Derived forms: climbing hydrangeas
Type of: bush, hydrangea, shrub
Part of: genus Hydrangea, genus Schizophragma, Schizophragma
Encyclopedia: Climbing hydrangea