Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Originator/Registrant: Rudolph
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1976
Cultivar Group (Type): Herbaceous Hybrid
Season of bloom: Early Midseason (week 3)
Flower Form: Single
Flower Color: Red
Flower color description: Cool medium red single with a yellow tuft of stamens.
Needs support: No
Awards: Gold Medal: 1992
Award of Landscape Merit: 2009

General Plant Information (Edit)
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 2 -45.6 °C (-50 °F) to -42.8 °C (-45°F)
Plant Height: 36 to 39 inches
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Time: Spring
Underground structures: Rhizome
Uses: Cut Flower
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Resistances: Humidity tolerant
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Crowns
Parentage: Burma Ruby x unknown
Child plants: 2 child plants

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Common names
  • Peony

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Location: My garden in Cortland, OH
Date: 2023-05-21
Location: My garden in Cortland, OH
Date: 2022-05-23
May look like a tulip at first glance, but it is a peony!
Location: Arboretum Wojslawice. Poland.
Date: 2019-05-27
Location: St Louis - MoBOT
Date: 2023-05-08
Location: southeast Ohio
Date: 2017-05-04
Location: Nationale Plantentuin Meise (Brussels)
Location: Nationale Plantentuin Meise (Brussels)

Date: 2010-12-20
Location: southeast Ohio
Date: 2017-05-01

Photo Courtesy of Homestead Farms Nursery. Used with Permission.
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Photo Courtesy of Homestead Farms Nursery. Used with Permission.
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: garden of botanist Robert R. Kowal in Madison, Wisconsin
Date: 2013-06-09
Photo courtesy of: James Steakley
Location: garden of botanist Robert R. Kowal in Madison, Wisconsin
Date: May 20, 2012
photo by James Steakley

Photo Courtesy of Homestead Farms Nursery. Used with Permission.
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