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Deutzia scabra Thunb.

Deutzia, Deutzia (EN), Fuzzy Pride-of-rochester, Fuzzy pride-of-Rochester

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Summary

Deutzia scabra, known as Fuzzy Deutzia or Pride-of-Rochester, is a species of flowering plant in the hydrangea family (Hydrangeaceae) native to Japan and introduced to mainland east Asia, Europe, and North America. In its native Japan, it is found from the Kantō region, westward to the islands of Kyushu and Shikoku. Its natural habitat is along forest edges and rocky openings. It is tolerant of disturbance and can be found growing out of stone walls, along roadsides, and in other waste areas.

Text from Wikipedia, “Deutzia scabra”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Deutzia

Deutzia is a genus of about 60 species of flowering plants in the family Hydrangeaceae, native to eastern and central Asia, and Central America and also Europe. By far the highest species diversity is in China, where 50 species occur.

Text from Wikipedia, “Deutzia”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Hydrangeaceae
Described by
Thunb.
Native to
Japan
Wild records
533 in range· 480 open

At a glance

Warmest month
28°C
Aug, mean day; nights 22 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
2079mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Sep 274 mm (CHELSA)
Light
16–34DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: a summer growing season, April to October in the northern hemisphere (April to October at the habitat, northern). Habitat rain 2079 mm a year, wettest September at 274 mm, driest December at 60 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 16 to 34 mol/m²/day. Cold floor -4.3 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Deutzia candidissima Lavallée; Deutzia crenata f. angustifolia (Regel) Nakai; Deutzia crenata f. candidissima (Bonard) H.Hara; Deutzia crenata f. plena (Maxim.) Nakai; Deutzia crenata subsp. candidissima-plena Fröbel and 24 more.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: a summer growing season, April to October in the northern hemisphere (April to October at the habitat, northern).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the year's rain (1587 mm of 2079 mm) falls in April to October, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 20.2 °C against a yearly mean of 14.8 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: October to April.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 2079 mm a year, wettest September at 274 mm, driest December at 60 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

2079 mm a year at the habitat, 1587 mm of it April to October. Wettest month September at 274 mm, driest December at 60 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 1445 mm to 3135 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 16 to 34 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 16 to 34 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 15, the highest 90th-percentile month 36).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor -4.3 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is -4.3 °C, the absolute minimum -7.8 °C, about 52 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 26.7 °C. Monthly means: coldest night -0.4 °C in January (across the envelope cells -6.4 °C to 5.2 °C), warmest day 27.6 °C in August (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: -4.3 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 57 to 68% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 7 °C in Jan to 28 °C in Aug; mean night from -0 °C in Jan to 22 °C in Aug. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest night. 2079 mm of rain a year, most in Sep. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 405 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -7.8 °C and the 99th-percentile day 26.7 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-10°10°20°30°40°frost26.7° 99th-percentile day (undated)-7.8° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400500600mm rainDLI 16–34RH 57–68 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 405 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C7 / 3–108 / 4–1111 / 8–1416 / 14–1820 / 18–2223 / 21–2527 / 24–2828 / 25–2925 / 22–2720 / 17–2215 / 11–1710 / 6–12
Night °C-0 / -6–5-0 / -6–53 / -2–88 / 4–1213 / 9–1617 / 14–2021 / 18–2422 / 19–2519 / 15–2213 / 9–188 / 3–132 / -3–8
Rain mm68 / 45–9990 / 49–135161 / 93–235167 / 108–264193 / 127–309265 / 163–529254 / 163–446248 / 155–352274 / 207–402186 / 130–249113 / 74–15760 / 43–86
DLI18 / 16–1922 / 21–2427 / 25–2932 / 30–3434 / 32–3630 / 27–3332 / 28–3533 / 29–3526 / 22–2822 / 19–2418 / 16–1916 / 15–18
RH %57 / 54–6257 / 54–6159 / 56–6160 / 58–6162 / 60–6467 / 64–6968 / 65–7167 / 64–7066 / 63–6862 / 59–6560 / 57–6257 / 55–61

Each figure is the median across the 405 grid cells holding the 523 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 1102:6380 (34.875, 139.025). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -7.8 °C, 1st-percentile night -4.3 °C, 99th-percentile day 26.7 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 405 distinct grid cells holding the 523 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1102:6380 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 35.00_138.750, lapse-corrected +657 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 888 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeJapan· introduced: Great Britain, Germany
Kew's description“shrub” · “temperate”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker35.495, 139.077 · in the densest population, 299 records (56% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 533 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 480 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 2 km away. 996 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 10 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 533 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) Marco Mussita, some rights reserved (CC BY); no rights reserved · CC0 (4).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Deutzia scabra, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Erysiphe deutziae - a new epidemic spread in Europe
A. Bolay, Uwe Braun, R. Delhey, Volker Kummer (2005) · publish.UP (University of Potsdam)
Iridoid aglycones from Deutzia scabra
Paola Esposito, Carlo Iavarone, Alina Sen, Corrado Trogolo (1984) · Phytochemistry
Scabrosidol, A New Highly Oxygenated Iridoid Glucoside from Deutzia scabra
Paola Esposito, Carlo Iavarone, Alina Sen, Corrado Trogolo (1983) · Journal of Natural Products
Slow growth conservation and molecular characterization of Deutzia scabra Thunb.
Ahmed M. M. Gabr, S. Sawsan Sayed (2010) · African Journal of Plant Science
The life-cycle of heteroecious species of Puccinia
H. Asuyama (1936) · 日本植物病理學會報
Introduction assessment of highly ornamental shrubs and forms in the conditions of the Tashkent Botanical Garden (Uzbekistan)
Dilovar Tolibdjonovna Khamraeva, Nargiza Rakhimova, Eldor Temirov (2024) · E3S Web of Conferences
Feasibility of Preparing Nesting Box and Luring Large Solitary Carpenter Bee, Xylocopa Valga
Michał Schulz, Radosław Ścibior, Kamil Badurowicz, Aleksandra Łoś (2017) · Journal of Apicultural Science
QUANTITATIVE ETHNOMEDICINAL SURVEY OF SHRUBBY PLANTS, USED BY THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES OF DISTRICT LAHORE (PUNJAB), PAKISTAN
Shabnum Shaheen, Sobia Sarwar, Nidaa Harun, Sana Khalid (2020) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Deutzia in the Mari El Republic
Svetlana Valer'evna Mukhametova, Kseniya Aleksandrovna Veselova, Lyudmila Vitalievna Sukhareva (2020) · Сельское хозяйство

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Deutzia 2 in the reference

History & registers

Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
gbif.species answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.synonyms answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.vernacular answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-20 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
wcvp.distribution answered
gbif.occurrences answeredGBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.3h4zam
climate answered
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