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Peonies - variety, various colours and their plants/tubers

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All Peonies have five or more large outer petals called guard petals and a center of golden, pollen-bearing stamens. Peonies are classified according to flower form: single, Japanese, anemone, semi double and double.

Single peonies have five or more broad petals in one or two rows surrounding a center of stamens. The anemone form, often included in the semi-double category, may have more than one row of guard petals encircling a center of thin, petal-like structures. Japanese types are similar to anemones but have staminodes (stamens that do not produce pollen) in their centers.

Semi double peonies have five or more outer petals and a center of broad petals with pollen-bearing stamens intermixed. Double peonies have five or more outer petals with the central stamens and carpels transformed into petals that make up the main body of the large, full flower. All types are grown as cut flowers, though the double types are the most popular.

Cultivars Suitable for Cut Flower Produc­tion

Single

  • White: Clairrette, Watteau (Cream)
  • Pink: Thoma, Murillo
  • Red: Bandmaster, King of England
  • Deep red, double
  • Karl Rosenfeld
  • Inspecteur Lavergne
  • Big Ben
  • Adolph Rousseau
  • Kansas
  • Bunkar Hill
  • Felix Crousse
  • Shawnee Chief
    Midnight Sun(Japanese)

Pink, double

  • Sarah Bernhardt
  • Miss Eckardt
  • Walter Faxon
  • Monsieur Jules Elie
  • Sweet 16
  • Raspberry Sundae
  • Cytherea (semi-double)
  • Cora Charm (semi-double)
  • Largo (Japanese)

White, double

  • Festival Maxima
  • Mme de Verneille
  • Avalanche
  • Laura Dessert
  • Charlie’s White
  • Bridal Shower
  • Miss America(semi-double)
  • Louise Marx(Japanese)