Sophie Luo - Hydrangea Macrophylla
This French Hydrangea was found in an urban area within Vancouver. According to OneZoom, phylogenetically, hydrangeas are within the domain, Eukarya, kingdom Plantae, order Cornales, family Hydrangeaceae, genus Hydrangea, and species Hydrangea Macrophylla. Ancestral clades from which the French Hydrangea descend include, in chronological order, Embryophyta, Tracheophyta, Spermatophyta (angiosperms), and Eudicotyledons.
An adaptation unique to hydrangeas is the presence of poisonous glycoside amygdalin in many of its structures, including its buds, flowers and leaves, which breaks down to produce cyanide in many organisms' metabolisms. This serves as a defense mechanism against predation by many herbivores and omnivores and has helped the hydrangea species succeed in growing and proliferating.
The most notable adaptation common to all of our observations is aesthetic beauty - despite all other differences, each flower has attention-catching shapes and vibrant colours to attract pollinators, helping the plant proliferate. This visual adaptation is extremely important to the evolutionary success of all of the observed flower species.
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