Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Originator/Registrant: Calot
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1858
Cultivar Group (Type): Lactiflora
Season of bloom: Early Midseason (week 3)
Midseason (week 4)
Flower Form: Bomb
Full Double
Flower color description: "Color pale lilac rose 1(130), center sulphur yellow". Some blooms produce pale carpelodes streaked with red in the very center. No remnant stamens or carpels visible.
Needs support: No

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: Bi-Color: pale pink guard petals and yellow petalodes
Flower Time: Spring
Late spring or early summer

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Common names
  • Peony

Photo Gallery
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2018-05-31
The center mass of transformed stamens and carpels, the petalodes
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2019-06-08
Many of the blooms I've seen have not only the pale lilac guard p
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2019-06-08
Photographed in summer 2019; planted fall 2016
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2019-06-06
No hint of untransformed stamens or carpels is visible, however d

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