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This pink Paeonia (third picture) is beautiful !
This is what I had as mascula in Suffolk (somewhat foolishly I didn't bring it with me)
Oooh! That was a sad mistake, Gail! Impossible to move everything though, isn't it?
It not easy to use a botanical key but it is sometime useful to identify and separate species of unknown origin and that could look similar :https://www.peonysociety.eu/species/officinalis belong to subsection Paeonia and mascula to Foliatae and are mainly seggragated by root shape and number of leaflet.