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Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive. In addition, these meanings are alluded to in older pictures, songs and writings.
Paeonia officinalis (European peony, common peony, or garden peony; type species) Paeonia parnassica (Greek peony) Paeonia peregrina (Kosovar peony or Romanian peony) Paeonia sterniana; Paeonia tenuifolia (steppe peony or fern leaf peony) Paeonia veitchii (Veitch's peony) Woody species, tree peonies (about 8 species) Paeonia decomposita
Paeonia × suffruticosa is the name used for most tree peony cultivars, but is not a naturally occurring species, so it can be regarded as the name for a man-made hybrid swarm. Genetic analysis has shown that five species of the subsection Vaginatae together make up the parentage of the tree peony cultivars created before World War II.
Tree peony hybrid 'Maxime Cornu' of the P. × lemoinei group, is a hybrid between subsection Delavayana (P. delavayi) and subsection Vaginatae (P. suffruticosa 'La Ville de Saint-Denis'). Tree peony is the vernacular name for the section Moutan of the plant genus Paeonia , or one of the species or cultivars belonging to this section.
Paeonia delavayi is a low woody shrub belonging to the peony family, and is endemic to China. The vernacular name in China is 滇牡丹 (diān mǔdan). In English it is called Delavay's tree peony, Delavay peony, Dian peony, and dian mu dan. It mostly has reddish-brown to yellow, nodding flowers from mid May to mid June.
Other species of tree peony do not have yellow flowers, do not grow as large and generally have darker green foliage and darker brown bark. Some of the many cultivated cross-breeds of tree peonies may have yellow flowers, but these are not nodding, generally much larger, mostly double flowered, with darker green leaves and much lower. [7]
Paeonia rockii, or Rock's peony, is a woody species of tree peony that was named after Joseph Rock. It is one of several species given the vernacular name tree peony, and is native to the mountains of Gansu and adjoining provinces in China. In Chinese, it is known as 紫斑牡丹 (pinyin: zǐbān mǔdān).
Paeonia tenuifolia is a herbaceous species of peony that is called the steppe peony or the fern leaf peony.It is native to the Caucasus Mountains, with large fields found in Vashlivani National Park in Georgia and the Black Sea coast of Ukraine, spreading westward into Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia and eastward to northwestern Kazakhstan.