Peony
Habit | herbaceous
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Lifespan: | ⌛ | perennial |
Features: | ✓ | flowers, fragrance, cut flowers |
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Flower features: | ❀ | red, yellow, white |
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They are native to Asia, southern Europe and western North America. Boundaries between species are not clear and estimates of the number of species range from 25 [1] to 40.[2]
Most are herbaceous perennial plants 0.5–1.5 metres tall, but some resemble trees up to 1.5–3 metres tall. They have compound, deeply lobed leaves, and large, often fragrant flowers, ranging from red to white or yellow, in late spring and early summer.
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Cultivation
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Propagation
This varies according to type, For instance Tree peonies are propagated by grafting but Herbaceous and Itoh peonies by root division. However new peonies are raised from seed. [3]
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Pests and diseases
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Species
- Herbaceous species (about 30 species)
- Paeonia abchasica
- Paeonia anomala
- Paeonia bakeri
- Paeonia broteri
- Paeonia brownii (Brown's Peony)
- Paeonia californica (California Peony)
- Paeonia cambessedesii
- Paeonia caucasica
- Paeonia clusii
- Paeonia coriacea
- Paeonia daurica
- Paeonia emodi
- Paeonia hirsuta
- Paeonia intermedia
- Paeonia japonica (Japanese Peony)
- Paeonia kesrouanensis (Syrian Peony)
- Paeonia lactiflora (Chinese Peony, known as 芍藥 "sháoyao" (literally: "most beautiful" [4]) in Chinese, "common garden peony")
- Paeonia macrophylla
- Paeonia mairei
- Paeonia mascula (Balkan Peony)
- Paeonia mlokosewitschii (Golden Peony)
- Paeonia obovata
- Paeonia officinalis (European Peony)
- Paeonia parnassica (Greek Peony)
- Paeonia peregrina
- Paeonia rhodia
- Paeonia sinjiangensis
- Paeonia sterniana
- Paeonia steveniana
- Paeonia suffruticosa (Rimpo Peony)-[1]
- Paeonia tenuifolia
- Paeonia tomentosa
- Paeonia veitchii (Veitch's Peony)
- Paeonia wittmanniana
- Woody species (about 8 species)
- Paeonia decomposita
- Paeonia delavayi (Delavay's Tree Peony)
- Paeonia jishanensis (syn. Paeonia spontanea; Jishan Peony)
- Paeonia ludlowii (Ludlow's Tree Peony)
- Paeonia ostii (Osti's Peony)
- Paeonia qiui (Qiu's Peony)
- Paeonia rockii (syn. Paeonia suffruticosa subsp. rockii; Rock's Peony or Tree Peony)
- Paeonia suffruticosa (Chinese tree peony, known as 牡丹 "mǔdān" in Chinese)
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- Paeonia alba
- Paeonia albo-plena
- Paeonia albiflora
- Paeonia amaranthescens
- Paeonia Andersonii
- Paeonia anemoneflora
- Paeonia angustiloba
- Paeonia anomala
- Paeonia arborea
- Paeonia arietina
- Paeonia Banksii
- Paeonia Baxteri
- Paeonia blanda
- Paeonia Brownii
- Paeonia californica
- Paeonia Cambessedesii
- Paeonia chinensis
- Paeonia corallina
- Paeonia coriacea
- Paeonia cretica
- Paeonia decora
- Paeonia Delavayi
- Paeonia edulis
- Paeonia elatior
- Paeonia festiva
- Paeonia fimbriata
- Paeonia flore-pleno
- Paeonia filgida
- Paeonia Humei
- Paeonia hybrida
- Paeonia insignis
- Paeonia intermedia
- Paeonia lobata
- Paeonia lutea
- Paeonia Mlokosewitschii
- Paeonia Moutan
- Paeonia obovata
- Paeonia officinalis
- Paeonia oreogeton
- Paeonia Pallasii
- Paeonia papaveracea
- Paeonia paradoxa
- Paeonia peregrina
- Paeonia pulcherrima
- Paeonia Reevesiana
- Paeonia Reevesii
- Paeonia rosea
- Paeonia roseo-superba
- Paeonia rubro-plena
- Paeonia Sabini
- Paeonia sinensis
- Paeonia suffruticosa
- Paeonia superba
- Paeonia tenuifolia
- Paeonia Veitchii
- Paeonia vittata
- Paeonia Whitleyi
- Paeonia Wittmanniana
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Gallery
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A cultivar of Paeonia lactiflora
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
External links
- w:Peony. Some of the material on this page may be from Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons license.
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- ↑ Josef J. Halda and James W. Waddick. 2004. The genus Paeonia. Timber Press: Oregon, USA.
- ↑ Michio Tamura. 2007. "Paeoniaceae". pages 265-269. In: Klaus Kubitski (editor). The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants volume IX. Springer-Verlag: Berlin;Heidelberg, Germany.
- ↑ How to Propagate Peonies
- ↑ http://livinginseason.blogspot.com/2006/06/peony-most-beautiful.html