Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Originator/Registrant: Auten
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1945
Cultivar Group (Type): Lactiflora
Flower Form: Japanese
Flower Color: White
Flower color description: Distinctive in this list because it is the latest to bloom and opens palest pink, fading to white, with the usual yellow center

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 7b
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy

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  • Peony

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Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2024-05-24
Peony 'Fairbanks' 24W21 13yo Lactiflora G3 (Auten, 1945) (3-JAP-W
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2017-09-13
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2017-09-13
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2024-05-24
Peony 'Fairbanks' 24W21 13yo Lactiflora G3 (Auten, 1945) (3-JAP-W

Photo Courtesy of Crossview Gardens. Used with Permission.
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Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2017-09-13
Comments:
  • Posted by frankrichards16 (Clinton, Michigan - Zone 5b) on Apr 5, 2018 11:10 AM concerning plant:
    "Paeonia 'Fairbanks', (3-JAP-W) lactiflora cultivar Peony, (Auten, 1945), USDA Hardiness Zone 2, medium height, Japanese type, light pink that fades to white, yellow staminodes, red mottled stems, Michigan Bloom Month 5-6.

    White petaloids are sometimes mixed in with the yellow staminodes. Edward Auten Jr. (1881-1974) was a Princeville, Illinois banker (Harvard Grad) that introduced close to 300 peonies. In 1968 he was awarded the APS saunders Memorial Medal."

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