Data specific to Peonies (Edit)
Originator/Registrant: Guérin
Year of Registration or Introduction: 1846
Cultivar Group (Type): Lactiflora
Season of bloom: Midseason (week 4)
Late Midseason (week 5)
Flower Form: Bomb
Full Double
Flower Color: Pink
Flower color description: "Guards deep pink, solferino-red, ..., center shaded salmon, with silvery reflex" "luscious deep pink double with some of the central petals uniquely tinted with a violet cast and other petals sprinkled with rich salmon pink highlights."
Flower size: Medium to large
Needs support: No

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer

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Common names
  • Peony
  • Garden Peony
Also sold as:
  • Duchesse d'Orleans
  • Duchesse de Orleans

Photo Gallery
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2018-06-02
Duchesse d'Orleans peony - intensity of color depends on growing
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2019-06-08
Duchesse d'Orleans peony - some blooms like this are fairly stand
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2019-06-11
Duchesse d'Orleans peony - some blooms develop a bomb form, like
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2019-06-11
Duchesse d'Orleans peony - young plant (planted fall 2016), but a
Location: Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date: 2019-06-11
Duchesse d'Orleans peony - few if any stamens are visible, but a
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