Peony (scientific name: peony × peony? Andre. ) is a plant of Paeonia in Ranunculaceae. It is a perennial deciduous shrub with a stem as high as 2 meters; The branches are short and thick. The leaves are usually bipinnately compound, with green surface, hairless, light green back and sometimes white powder. The petiole is 5- 1 1 cm long and the leaf axis is hairless. Flowers solitary, bracts 5, oblong.
Sepals 5, green, broadly ovate, petals 5 or double, rose, purple, pink to white, usually changing greatly, obovate, with irregular waves at the top; Anthers oblong, 4 mm long; Disk leathery, cup-shaped, purplish red; Carpels 5, densely pilose. Kelp is rectangular with dense yellow-brown bristles. Flowering in May; The fruiting period is June.
morphological character
Flowers are colorful, jade smiles and pearls are fragrant, romantic and elegant, and they are known as "the king of flowers". In terms of cultivation types, it can be divided into hundreds of varieties mainly according to the color of flowers. Peony has many varieties and colors, with yellow, green, red meat, crimson and silver red as the top grades, especially yellow and green. Peony flower is big and fragrant, so it is also called "national color and fragrance".
Flower solitary branch apex, diameter10-17cm; Pedicel 4-6 cm long; Bracts 5, oblong, unequal in size; Sepals 5, green, broadly ovate, different in size; Petals 5, petals or double petals, rose, purple, pink to white, usually vary greatly, obovate, 5-8 cm long and 4.2-6 cm wide, with irregular waves at the top; Stamens are 1- 1.7 cm long, filaments are purplish red and pink, and the upper part is white, about 1.3 cm long.