From these last series, they've received a long warm period and will now go into cold storage. Here the two…
Image I saw on a page. I think experts can make a better species definition from the visual.
5 CommentsIt could be, but without the leaflets it’s hard to say. If from Turkey it could be P. arietina, P. daurica or P. mascula ssp mascula. For P. arietina you would need hairs on the stems and leaf stalks and backside of the leaflets. The others will be without hairs on those places. P. daurica will have only 9 leaflets on the lowest leaf and should…Read More
You are very knowledgeable. How did you get so much information? Congratulations. Thank you for this good information. If this information had been released as open source, perhaps much newer species could have emerged. I believe it is useful information.
Thank you for the compliment although I don’t consider myself an expert. If you go to ‘species’ in the menu above, you can read quite a bit about the peony species. It is true that most publications about peonies are not exactly open source. Some garden books are not too expensive, but the specialized botanical books or articles are usually way to…Read More
Pretty. From where in Turkey? I cannot count the number of leaflets, but from the look of it I think it is P. daurica, or perhaps (less likely) P. mascula ssp mascula. So from the images I would guess somewhere Southern Turkey?
Türkiye
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1 CommentThis tugs at my heartstrings, and touches the root of the root of my people.
I always knew my homeland was rich with resources, but this requires a decent, thorough reading session.
Life is taking me in new directions, but I will hold to the course, and make time for this journey.
I intend to undertake a Peony Pilgrimage one day. Go up, see them in the wild, wherever I can find them, be it in Anatolia or the Caucasus.
Oh, and I definitely dream of Luoyang.
The Peony Society uploaded the file: Latest plant list to
Species Peonies International Network (SPIN) in the group Species Peonies International Network (SPIN)
Some 120 plants for now. Not all available for seeds as yet, but species collecting is something that takes years of course…
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Difficult to say really. All we see are tomentose carpels, dark pink stigmas and a pink flower. You can exclude many peonies, it’s not a tree peony for example as there is no ‘sheath’ around the carpels. And the species with normally a different color or glabrous carpels can also be excluded, but several remain. Some possibilities: P. mascula ssp…Read More