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It was in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society in December 1858 that Hooker and Thompson described a new species of hydrangea they had discovered in Sikkim, in the temperate Himalaya, flowering in August of the previous year. They named this Hydrangea ‘robusta’, describing it as a small tree with strong branches – arbor parva, ramisContinue reading “Is Hydrangea robusta taxonomy robust?”