​Varieties of Peony Flowers

Many friends like to grow flowers. They usually grow a lot of flowers at home and in the office. Growing flowers can make people happy. There are many types of flowers, and each type of flower has many varieties. Here I will introduce to you the many varieties of peonies. Friends who like peonies can refer to this and learn more about it so that they can better care for them in their future lives.

One is the peony group, which is a deciduous shrub or subshrub with a cup-shaped or disc-shaped disk, leathery or fleshy, completely covering the carpel or covering the base of the carpel. There are three kinds of peony produced in China (excluding variants), namely, peony, yellow peony and purple peony.

The second is the peony group, which is a perennial herb with an underdeveloped disc that covers the base of the carpel and is not very obvious. There are about 30 species of plants in the Paeonia lactiflora group, which are mainly distributed in the temperate regions of Europe and Asia.

There are two other species native to America, and some people classify them as a separate group, called the American peony group.

Peony plants produced abroad are all important species of flowers, among which the most important four are: fern-leaf peony, with blood-red flowers, native to Bulgaria and the Caucasus; yellow peony, with light yellow flowers, or light green to white, native to the area between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea; yellow peony, with yellow flowers, native to the area between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea; red peony, with white to dark red flowers, native to southern Europe.

There are eight species and six varieties of peony plants in China, among which the one commonly called peony is the main original species of the modern peony variety group. The eight types of peonies are: grass peony, beautiful peony, peony, multi-flowered peony, white peony, Sichuan red peony, Xinjiang peony and narrow-leaved peony.

Flower type classification characteristics of peony

1. Single flower type: The flower is composed of a single flower

1.1 Thousand-layer subtype: The petals increase naturally and concentrically, are arranged neatly, are similar in shape, and gradually become smaller from the outside to the inside; the stamens are only attached around the ovary, and decrease accordingly as the number of petals increases until they disappear. The flowers are flat.

① Single-petal type: 2 to 3 rounds of broad petals, with normally developed stamens and pistils, usually refers to the original species type.

② Lotus type: 4 to 5 whorls of broad petals of similar shape and size; normal stamens or individual stamen petals transformed into broken petals, lanceolate petals or whisker-like petals scattered among the stamen group; normal pistils.

③ Chrysanthemum type: more than 6 petals, gradually getting smaller from the outside to the inside, normal stamens, fewer in number; normal pistils, more in number or

reduce.

④ Rose type: The number of petals increases greatly, gradually decreasing from the outside to the inside, and all stamens disappear; the pistils are normal, degenerate and become smaller, or disappear completely.