Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Cultivar Group (Type): Lactiflora
Season of bloom: Midseason (week 4)
Flower Color: Red
Pink
Flower color description: opening solid red or deep pink, but with centers that fade to pale pink with age. A collar of golden stamens around the central petals in some but not all blooms
Flower size: large
Needs support: No

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 7b
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant

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Common names
  • Peony

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Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2018-06-02
Chinese peony Da Fu Gui - example of a bloom with a pale pink, al
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2018-06-02
Chinese peony Da Fu Gui - blooms to the rear are beginning to get
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2019-06-08
Chinese peony Da Fu Gui - bloom surrounded by side buds, which ar
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2018-06-02
Chinese peony Da Fu Gui - illustrating the color transformation f
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2019-06-08
Chinese peony Da Fu Gui - buds in various stages of opening

Date: 2010-05-12
USDA

Date: 2010-05-26
USDA

Date: 2010-07-01
USDA
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