• Plant: Peony (Paeonia lactiflora 'Mikado')
  • Uploaded by arctangent
  • Info: Bloom / 2019-06-11 / Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan / License: All rights reserved
  • Caption: Mikado heirloom peony - described historically as 'crimson'. My own experience is that there are blue notes in the color.
Photo of Peony (Paeonia lactiflora 'Mikado') uploaded by arctangent

Other Photos
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2019-06-11
Mikado peony, detail of staminodes and carpels

Date: c. 1940
illustration from Robert Wayman's 1940 catalog, Bayside, New York
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2019-06-11
Mikado peony - the cupped and ruffled shape of the guard petals i
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2018-06-06
Mikado peony - all the 2018 blooms on this plant showed only fain

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