About the spelling in Chinese being variable, I was reading a murder mystery once where the suspect was Chinese when the Americans were trying to track him down in China, the Chinese insisted that the American send over a picture of the man's name in Chinese characters because his name in English could be spelled any number of ways, but only written 1 way in Chinese. I guess that it going to be a good thing to remember when I start thinking about tree peonies.
Oh, youngest son wanted to know today if peonies could get as tall as him, because Mindcraft has peonies that tall...we figured out they must be tree peonies!