• Plant: Peony (Paeonia lactiflora 'Mikado')
  • Uploaded by arctangent
  • Info: Bloom / 2018-06-06 / Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan / License: All rights reserved
  • Caption: Mikado peony - all the 2018 blooms on this plant showed only faint traces of the red centers to the staminodes so prominent in the 2019 blooms.
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 heirloom peony - described historically as 'crimson'. My o
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

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