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Peony (scientific name: Paeonia × suffruticosa Andr.) is a plant of the Paeoniaceae family. It is a perennial deciduous shrub with stems up to 2 meters high and branches short and thick. The leaves are usually two-to-three compound leaves with green and hairless surfaces and light green undersides, sometimes with white powder. The petioles are 5-11 cm long, and the leaf rachis is hairless.

Flowers solitary on top of branches, with 5 bracts, oblong; 5 sepals, green, broadly ovate; 5 or double petals, rose, reddish-purple, pink to white, usually highly variable. Large, obovate, with irregular wavy apex; anthers oblong, 4 mm long; disc leathery, cup-shaped, purple-red; carpels 5, densely pubescent.

The follicles are oblong and densely covered with yellowish-brown bristles. Flowering period is May; fruiting period is June. The flowers are bright in color, fragrant, elegant and magnificent, and are known as the "King of Flowers". Among the cultivation types, it can be divided into hundreds of varieties mainly based on the color of the flowers.

There are many varieties of peonies with many colors. Yellow, green, flesh red, deep red, and silver red are the top grades, especially yellow and green. Peony flowers are large and fragrant, so they are also known as "the beauty of the country and the fragrance of the sky". The poems of Bai Juyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, "It takes twenty days for flowers to bloom and fall, and everyone in the city will go crazy" and Liu Yuxi's poems, "Only peonies are the true national beauty, and they move the capital when they bloom" are vivid portrayals of the custom of peony appreciation in Luoyang, the eastern capital. . ?

Distribution range

China is particularly rich in peony resources. According to a survey by the China Peony National Flower Office, China’s Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Tibet, Xin, Qing, Gan, and Ningxia, Shaanxi, Guangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, Fujian, Anhui, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Beijing, Tianjin, Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Jilin, Hubei, Qiong, Hong Kong, Taiwan, etc. Peonies are planted everywhere.

Heze, Luoyang, Beijing, Linxia, ??Pengzhou, Tongling County, etc. have the largest and most concentrated peony cultivation areas. Zhongyuan flower farmers went to Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Shenzhen, and Hainan in winter to promote peony flowering, which encouraged peonies to settle in the above areas, and peonies were planted all over China's provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions.