Scientific Name:	Paeonia lactiflora
Pronunciation:	pee-OH-nee-uh lack-tih-FLORE-uh
Common Name:	common garden peony, Chinese peony
Family Name:	Paeoniaceae
Plant Type:	Flowering cut plant, Herbaceous perennial
Key ID Features:	Flowers to 10 cm wide, white to pink, many petals, buds round; leaves mostly with three deeply entire or incised leaflets.
Course(s):	HORT 1193/1293, Level 1 Apprenticeship

Habit: Upright Form: Vase Texture: Coarse Mature Size: Height: 0.4 - 0.7m Spread: 0.6 - 1.0m Growth Rate: Fast Origin: Central / west Asia (E. Siberia, Mongolia, W. & N. China) Hardiness Rating: Zone 6: (-23 to -18 C) Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade, Sheltered Soil/ Growing Medium: Humus rich, Well-drained Landscape Uses: Cut flower or foliage, Fall interest, Floristry, Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Specimen plant, Spring interest Additional Info: Google Images. > 100 cvs.

Leaf Morphology: Form: Compound, Lobed Arrangement: Alternate Texture/ Venation: Pinnate venation, Soft flexible Surfaces: Glabrous Compound Leaf: Biternate, Odd-pinnate, Tripinnate Colour in Summer: Dark-green, light green undersides Colour in Fall: Orange Leaf(let) Terms: Shapes: Elliptic, Lanceolate Apices: Cuspidate Bases: Attenuate Margins: Entire, Incised, Undulate (wavy) Additional Info: Spectacular fall colour, margins rough-scabrous, scant hairs beneath

Inflorescence Type: Floriferous, Flowers solitary Flower Morphology: Flowers perfect Corolla Shape: Rotate/stellate Colour (petals): Showy, White, Pink, Red, Dark-red, (depends on cv.) Flower Scent: Fragrant Flower Time at Peak: May, Jun

Fruit Type: Follicle, Aggregate fruit Fruit Colour: Brown, (black seeds) Fruiting Time: Aug, Sep Additional Info: Showy, in clusters of 4 to 5 (= number of pistils)

Bark or Stem Colour:     Organ Modifications: Tuberous roots, Rhizomes

Propagation:	Seed, Division - below ground parts
Plant Care:
Other:	Usually need support once the large flowers get wet.
Pest Susceptibility:	Blight or needle cast, Fungal leaf spot, Mold, Deer resistant, Rabbit resistant
Specific Pests:	Botrytis grey mold

Location(s): (CGW) Community Garden West (PDW) PonD West (PPL) Pine PLanting : cv. Coral Sunset (WDH) Wark-Dumais House Location Map

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