Paeonia 2010

[Hans J]

here is a pic from my Lavender from 2008 :

[Ragged Robin]

What beauties - I really like Paeonia 'Gauguin' too - lipstick red and the central boss is superb 

[Hans J]

Robin :

N.Daphnis has made many beautiful breedings ....the problem is to get them ( they are rare and expensiv )

[Lukas H]

Here is a pic of my Paeonia mlokosewitschii

[Lukas H]

And some pictures of more Peonies.

The Paeonia rockii is from wild collected seed of J.J. Halda.

The Paeonia rockii seedlings are now in their 4th year of groth exclusive the year of germination. Thei have developed well and the first flowered last year. I have already removed severel of them because they are too close to each other. I planted them to a hedge... I am excited how they are doing! :-)

[Lukas H]

Last for today are some really lovely P. wittmanniana ssp. macrophylla. Their pure early white flowers are always impressing. Nevertheless the robust stature of the plant. It flowered here in Switzerland around April the 20th.

[Gail]

Hans - love the softer colour of the Lavender as it fades.  I hadn't realised it was a strain.

Lukas - some lovely plants you've got.  The rockii looks a really nice form and the P. wittmanniana ssp. macrophylla is perfect!

[Hans J]

Gail - here is a pic of my group from my 'Lavender' from today  

I love this cultivar and so I had before some years the idea to repeat this cross from Saunders ( coriacea x lactiflora ) .....the pollination was succsessfull and I have rised one seedling ....I hope he will flower in next year .
In this time I had a P.coriacea ( in meantime lost ) and I used a P.lactiflora 'White Wings' for this cross ...the leaves looks like a intermediate between both species

[David Nicholson]

Here's my Paeonia anomala.

[Gail]

Hans - I will be interested to see pictures if your cross flowers next year.

David - nice looking plant, I do get the veitchii/anomala plants muddled.  For anyone else similarly confused there is an interesting Canadian site - http://www.peony.ca/species/anomala.htm

Flowering here now is another with a confusing nomenclature.  Grown from AGS seed  as P. ostii  this is sometimes called Feng Dan Bai instead but whatever the name it is a good robust plant that survived my husband dropping a large willow limb on it.

[David Nicholson]

David - nice looking plant, I do get the veitchii/anomala plants muddled.  For anyone else similarly confused there is an interesting Canadian site - http://www.peony.ca/species/anomala.htm

Thanks Gail. You might be interested in the discussion we had last year on veitchii/anomala here: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3114.135

[Hans J]

David ,

sorry ...but your plant looks really not like a P.anomala - it is shure a P.veitschii

It is really a shame how many wrong named plants or hybrids are in the collections

Hans

[arisaema]

According to the Flora of China (and, I suspect, the upcoming monograph) P. veitchii has been reduced to a subspecies of P. anomala - so naming it P. anomala would not be incorrect.

1 Flowers solitary, terminal, rarely 1 or 2 underdeveloped flower buds also present in axils of distal leaves   14a subsp. anomala
+ Flowers (1 or)2--4 per shoot, both terminal and axillary, usually 1--3 underdeveloped flower buds also present in axils of distal leaves   14b subsp. veitchii

[David Nicholson]

David ,

sorry ...but your plant looks really not like a P.anomala - it is shure a P.veitschii

It is really a shame how many wrong named plants or hybrids are in the collections

Hans

Hi Hans, they seem to be mixed up. Maybe this will put matters to rights.


http://www.cababstractsplus.org/abstracts/Abstract.aspx?AcNo=20043099334
 

[arisaema]

And the full paper as a .pdf is available for free here:

A TAXONOMIC REVISION OF THE PAEONIA ANOMALA COMPLEX (PAEONIACEAE)

They also reduce P. beresowskii and P. veitchii v. woodwardii to synonyms of P. anomala ssp. veitchii.