At this time, the hydrangea has completely fallen leaves and exposed naked, but dark purple winter buds appear from all over the brown branches, and the tip of the stem is large and looks like a candle flame. You can see the top buds.
At the place where the leaf handle was attached to the branch, there is a unique trace called leaf scar.
The leaf scars are those in which traces of the vascular bundle consisting of the wood part of the water passage absorbed from the roots and the teacher part of the passage of nutrients remain like spots.
In the case of hydrangea, there are three traces of vascular bundles, and the leaf scars are fallen pine-shaped to heart-shaped.
If you look like a human face, the left is like a "grandfather face" and the right is a "grandchild (baby) face".
The number and arrangement of vascular bundles vary depending on the tree, and are parable to human and animal faces, such as "cute face", "laughter face", "crying face", "singular face", "child face", "elderly face", etc. It seems that there are many things.
Here are some examples of such unique leaf scars that I saw at Harumi Triton Square <Flower / Green Terrace>.
It is one of the pleasures of walking around green spaces and parks from winter to early spring.
<Kashiwaba Hydrangea> <Tochinoki> <Mali Ode> <linden arrowwood>
