Hydrangea arborescens

Names: Hydrangea arborescens, Hydrangea vulgaris.
Names: hydor is the Greek for water and Angeion a vessel or vase.
English: Wild Hydrangea, Seven Barks, Common Hydrangea.
Dutch: Hortensia (this is really the Hydrangea macrophylla or Hydrangea hortensis).
Botany: most thirsty plant; bark is rough, peeling, each layer being a different colour; seven barks.
Culture: phrase from a poem about Hydrangea ‘In the midst of life, we are in death’.
Culture: flower of mother’s day.
Content: aluminium.