Description
Compared to Paeonia veitchii this form has paler flowers, more inclined to pink than purple. The flowers, which are usually larger, are made on plants which are usually smaller than the type species, growing from smaller rhizomes.
The bristly hairs on the nerves and mid-rib are longer and the leaf petioles and their sub-divisions are also bristly. This also has noticeably pink tubers.
These are nursery-raised, seedling plants and not Chinese imports. The stock has been raised from one plant which appeared in the garden of the late Michael Hoog at Zwanenburg House. It popped up in a pot of seedlings of Podophyllum hexandrum chinensis, brought as seed by Carla Teune of Leiden Botanic Garden, possibly this came from China unknowingly.
