Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Originator/Registrant: Shaylor
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1919
Cultivar Group (Type): Lactiflora
Season of bloom: Midseason (week 4)
Flower Form: Semi-Double
Flower Color: White
Flower color description: Several rows of fluffy crepe-like petals that become narrower and more finely cut toward the center, open light pink and quickly brighten to white; Prominent, bright red stigmas poking through a boss of golden yellow stamens.
Needs support: No
Awards: Award of Landscape Merit: 2009

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 7b
Plant Height: 33 to 38 inches
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Awards and Recognitions: RHS AGM
Child plants: 4 child plants

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Common names
  • Peony
  • Chinese Peony

Photo Gallery
Location: Louisville KY
Date: 2023-05-13
Prolonged bloom and sturdy, growing on a NE exposure semi-shaded
Location: Louisville KY
Date: 2023-05-08
In the ground for 33 years in zone 7.
Location: Daisydo's garden
Date: 2022-05-25
Mnnie Shaylor
Location: My Garden in PA
Date: 2023-05-24
Location: Louisville KY
Date: 2023-05-11
Showing the maximum streak coloration that I have experienced wit
Location: American Peony Society Garden, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Date: 06/16/2003
photo by Cornell Plantations via Cornell University Library's eCo

Courtesy Peony Paradise used with permission
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Location: Willamette Valley Oregon
Date: 2014-05-23
Photo taken at Adelman Peony Gardens
Location: Willamette Valley Oregon
Date: 2014-05-23
Photo taken at Adelman Peony Gardens
Location: Daisydo's garden
Date: 2020-05-27
Minnie Shaylor

Photo courtesy of Nate Bremer of Solaris Farms
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Courtesy Peony Paradise used with permission
  • Uploaded by Joy

Date: 2012-06-26
Photo courtesy of: Ulf Eliasson

Photo courtesy of Nate Bremer of Solaris Farms
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Willamette Valley Oregon
Date: 2014-05-23
Photo taken at Adelman Peony Gardens

Date: 2007-01-30
Courtesy Peony Paradise
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