Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Originator/Registrant: Mains
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1957
Cultivar Group (Type): Herbaceous Hybrid
Season of bloom: Midseason (week 4)
Flower Form: Single
Flower Color: Red
Flower color description: Guards burgundy red, large, staminodes flattened, color of guards with yellow edges. Carpels whitish green tipped with pink.
Needs support: No
Awards: Gold Medal: 1974

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 7b
Plant Height: 31 to 33 inches
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Pollinators: Various insects

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Common names
  • Peony
  • Garden Peony

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Uploaded by Mieko2
Location: Estonia
Date: 2021-06-11
Location: Estonia
Date: 2021-06-11
Location: University of Tartu Botanical Gardens, Estonia 
Date: 2023-06-11
Location: garden of botanist Robert R. Kowal in Madison, Wisconsin
Date: May 20, 2012
photo by James Steakley
Location: From my collection. Poland.
Date: 2021-06-18
Uploaded by Mieko2

Date: 2008-02-09
Courtesy Peony Paradise
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Courtesy Peony Paradise used with permission
  • Uploaded by Joy

Courtesy Peony Paradise used with permission
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: In my garden. Poland.
Location: In my garden. Poland.

Photo courtesy of Nate Bremer of Solaris Farms
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: In my garden. Poland.

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