Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Originator/Registrant: (Japan)
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1893
Cultivar Group (Type): Lactiflora
Season of bloom: Midseason (week 4)
Flower Form: Japanese
Flower color description: "...petals of dark, dull crimson; ... thick staminodes stained dark rose-red, edged ... and tipped with pale buff-yellow; carpels pale green, with white kernels at base and stringy, buff-yellow tips"
Flower size: medium

General Plant Information (Edit)
Life cycle: Perennial
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Child plants: one child plant

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Common names
  • Peony
  • Japanese Peony

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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
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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