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Paeonia
lactiflora
'Agida'
Image: Moore, Dawn - NBGW
Common name:
peony
Family:
Paeoniaceae (peony family)
Distribution:
Gardd/Garden
Hardiness:
(H6) Hardy-very cold winter. -20 to -15°C (USDA 6b/7a)
Life form:
Herbaceous perennial • Perlysiau lluosflwydd
Geirdarddiad / Etymology:
Paeonia (pay-OHN-ee-uh): Named after Paeon, the physician to the gods who, in mythology, was changed into a flower by Pluto.
Geirdarddiad / Etymology:
lactiflora (lak-tee-FLOR-uh): With milk-white flowers.
Description:
An upright and bushy herbaceous perennial with attractive, dissected dark green foliage tinged red in spring. Erect stems holding showy, spicily scented, saucer-shaped carmine-pink flowers which have prominent yellow stamens appear in summer.
Links:
Royal Horticultural Society
Locations
1:
Broadwalk/Y Rhodfa 01c
(BW01C)
• Accession: 2016-0143 • Provenance: Garden/Gardd
2:
IWGA15-Inner Walled Garden Quadrant A Bed 15/Yr Ardd Fewnol Cwadrant A Gwely 15
(IWGA15)
• Accession: 2013-0732 • Provenance: Garden/Gardd
3:
IWGB18-Inner Walled Garden Quadrant B Bed 18/Yr Ardd Fewnol Cwadrant B Gwely 18
(IWGB18)
• Accession: 2013-0732 • Provenance: Garden/Gardd
Area
Individual