Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Year of Registration or Introduction: Before 1910
Cultivar Group (Type): Suffruticosa Tree Peony
Season of bloom: Midseason (week 4)
Flower Form: Semi-Double
Flower Color: Pink
Flower color description: Reddish-purple. Stigmas and sheath white.
Flower size: Large

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Shrub
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Leaves: Deciduous
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Child plants: one child plant

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Common names
  • Japanese Tree Peony
  • Tree Peony
  • Peony
Also sold as:
  • Hana-Kisoi

Photo Gallery
Location: My garden in N E Pa. 
Date: 2015-05-12
Location: My garden in N E Pa. 
Date: 2022-05-12

Date: 2009-10-15
Location: My garden in N E Pa. 
Date: 2022-05-09
Location: Scarborough, ON
Date: 2021-05-22
Planted autumn 2020

Date: 2009-05-11

Date: 2009-05-11

Date: 2008-05-09

Photo Courtesy of Nate Bremer at Solaris Farms. Used with Permiss
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Location: Seattle 
Date: 2016-04-16
Location: My garden in N E Pa. 
Date: 2016-05-08
Location: My garden in N E Pa. 
Date: 2016-05-17
Location: West Valley City, UT
Date: 2012-04-23
Spring foliage.
Location: My garden in N E Pa. 
Date: 2014-05-18
Location: In my Northern California garden
Date: 2009-04-12
Location: garden of botanist Robert R. Kowal in Madison, Wisconsin
Date: April 29, 2012
photo by James Steakley
Photo by kousa
Location: West Valley City, UT
Location: In Zuzu's garden
Date: 2012-04-05
Location: In Zuzu's garden
Date: 2012-04-05
Location: West Valley City, UT
Date: 2011-06-04

Image Courtesy of Bloomin Designs Nursery Used with Permission
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Location: In my Northern California garden
Date: 2012-04-10
Location: West Valley City, UT
Date: 2014-04-28

Date: 2007-05-27
Credit Epibase

Date: 2013-05-26
Credit Moonik
Plant Events from our members
Zencat On January 1, 2017 Plant Ended (Removed, Died, Discarded, etc)
Plant died
MissMew On September 28, 2020 Transplanted
Installed in Back North East
MissMew On May 27, 2020 Obtained plant
Vandermeer (I bought under Graab Designs)
aspenhill On May 12, 2022 Obtained plant
Peony's Envy - qty 1
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