Peony, fully open
Paeonia sp.
Peony · New York Botanical Garden · 26 May 2025
A full, ruffled white peony with a few carmine-tipped staminodes breaking up the gold at the centre, and a pink bud waiting behind it. Peonies are named for Paeon, physician to the Greek gods, and the roots were medicine long before the flowers were ornament; the Chinese were breeding them for the garden by the seventh century, when they were the imperial flower and a good plant changed hands for gold.
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