When is the peony blooming season? The flowering season of peony flowers
The peony, also known as Jiangli, belongs to the order Saxifragales, family Ranunculaceae, genus Paeonia, and is a perennial herbaceous flowering plant. Next, let us take a look at the blooming time of peony flowers.
The peony is the grand finale flower of the spring garden. Whenever late spring and early summer arrive, that is, May to June, when the red blossoms are fading and the garden seems a little lonely, the peony is just about to bloom. If you happen to encounter a night of light rain, in the early morning you will see peony flowers blooming brilliantly and gracefully.
Some of its flower shapes are like towers, some like crowns, some like bowls, some like plates, and some like hydrangeas or saddles, dotted among the green leaves, bringing life to the lonely garden. Su Shi wrote the verse, "Thanks to the gardener for pitying the loneliness, still keeping the peony to bring up the rear of spring."
The peony combines the beauty of color, fragrance and charm, and poets of past dynasties were captivated by it, leaving behind many widely praised poems. For example, Han Yu of the Tang Dynasty wrote a seven-character quatrain: "Its grand bearing and wild fragrance I had never met before, red lanterns glistening, green coiled dragons, waking, I face it alone, frightened in my feelings, as if I were in the ninth heaven of the immortal palace." This fully expresses the author's emotion of being intoxicated by the peony's beauty, as if placed in paradise.
Before understanding when the peony blooms, let us first introduce the peony. The peony flower shapes include round peach, flat peach and several other kinds. The leaves are lanceolate, green, gradually decreasing from bottom to top, with 3 inner sepals, green or yellow-green, sometimes with yellow-white stripes or purple-red stripes. The leaves of the peony also have ornamental value. In "red lanterns glistening, green coiled dragons," "green coiled dragons" is praise for the leaves, so it can also be used as a foliage plant.
When does the peony bloom? The peony generally blooms alone at the top of the stem or near the top in the leaf axil, and some rare varieties even produce 2 or 3 flowers together. The original species has white flowers, 5-13 petals, obovate, with many stamens.
The peony's filaments are yellow, the floral disc is shallowly cup-shaped, wrapping the base of the carpels, with a bluntly rounded tip. Now horticultural varieties are rich in flower color, including white, pink, red, purple, yellow, green, black and bicolor, etc. The petals can reach up to a hundred, and some varieties even have 880 petals, with highly varied flower shapes. Generally, peonies bloom in May to June.
After understanding when the peony blooms, I will introduce the different varieties of peony. However, the list is not very comprehensive, because it has too many varieties, so I will only briefly introduce a few:
Single-flowered peony
1. Thousand-layer subclass: The petals increase naturally toward the center, are neatly arranged and similar in shape, gradually becoming smaller from outside inward, and the stamens only grow around the ovary, correspondingly decreasing as the petals increase until they disappear. The flower shape is flat. It mainly includes the single-petal type, lotus type, chrysanthemum type, rose type, etc.
2. Tower subclass: The outer petals are broad, in 2-3 whorls, the stamens are centrifugally petalized, and the pistils are normal, petalized or degenerated. The flower shape is raised or towering (except for the golden-stamen type). It mainly includes 5 types: golden-stamen type, osmanthus type, golden-ring type, crown type, and hydrangea type.
Terrace peony
When this variety of peony blooms, the growth point at the center of the flower or between the flowers undergoes a second differentiation of flower buds and then blooms. Another flower forms in the center, and the upper flower and the lower flower overlap, thereby increasing the degree of doubleness. Some varieties are even formed by the overlap of 3 or even 4 flowers.
1. Thousand-layer subclass: The basal single flower has the basic characteristics of the single-flowered thousand-layer subclass. In the thousand-layer terrace type, the pistils of the lower flower are normal or slightly petalized; the upper flower generally has normal stamens and pistils. The whole flower is relatively flat.
2. Tower subclass: The lower flower has 2-3 whorls of petals, with petalized stamens and petalized or degenerated pistils. The whole flower is towering. It mainly includes types such as the colored-petal terrace type, layered terrace type, and spherical-flower terrace type.
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