I know in the peony they can revert back to the original species..... that happened to a number of plants at a number of houses in this area last winter when the weather was so brutal. the way I was told that with the hybrid part killed off due to the winter...the species shows up instead. I know have a number of species type peony. The lily breeder that I bought a number of lilies from tried to explain this to me but it was way over my head to be honest. But the nice vivid peony that were once a very pretty shade of wine almost are now a light pink with fluffy petals and white inside and a yellow stamen. They also produce seed pods.
I have not heard of it in lilies before
I also have a red maple that is going back to a green maple instead............
Had this happen in a honeysuckle that bloomed orange for years and now this year and last is light pink with white centers instead..........
They say a brutal winter does this to plants............or some type of plants.........anyhow........... all I know is the hybrids are now all species instead...........and in relation to the flower on the honeysuckle it was packed full of more blooms and the other year the orange was sparse..... and on the peony the flowers are much bigger but fewer of them. Both the peony and the honeysuckle are well over 80 years old here.....and this is the first time this has happened. This year they all bloomed with the species again since apparently they can not go back to the hybrid........so I was told.
