Book  (1965)  Page(s) 460-461.  
 
3. Paeonia lactiflora Pall. P. albiflora Pall. Shaku-yaku. Erect perennial herb, 50-80 cm. high, the roots  thickened, narrowly fusiform; leaves once to twice pinnately  ternate, the leaflets often 3-parted, the segments lanceolate to narrowly obovate, shining above, pale green beneath; flowers large, white to rose or red-purple, often double. - May. Long cultivated in our area for ornament and medical purposes. - e. Siberia, Manchuria, Korea, China, and Tibet.

Book  (1917)  Page(s) 29-30.  
 
P. albiflora (white flowered)—Improved type — (see frontispiece and numerous other colour plates and half-tones), with red, pink, white, mauve or yellowish flowers of several forms, single, semi-double, crown, bomb, rose, etc., and many of them fragrant. This is the most important and interesting species of the herbaceous group and is the principal one grown to-day. It is sometimes called P. sinensis or Chinese peony.
The primitive type of P. albiflora—from its name, presumably white—is a native of a vast range of territory from the central regions of Siberia to central China. Its early history is entirely in China and Japan: it was not known in Europe prior to 1656.
The improved type was obtained:
(a) By importation into Europe from Siberia or China about 1850.
(b) By crossing P. albiflora (either the imported primitive type or the imported improved type) and certain little-known species, e.g., P. peregrina {foreign), P. arietina (ram's horn fruited), etc.
(c) By crossing P. albiflora (either the imported primitive type or the imported improved type) and P. officinalis. This crossing, done chiefly since 1850, is probably the origin of most of the beautiful double kinds of to-day with their varied forms and exquisite colourings.
 

Book  (1912)  Page(s) 240.  
 
Pæonia L. — N. Pff. iii. 2. 55. — Ranunculaceæ-Pæonieæ.
albiflora Pall. — DC. i. 66; B. M. t. 1756. 2888. — Siberia. — ♃.  May.

Website/Catalog  (Aug 1910)  Page(s) 14.  
 
Pivoines herbacées, espèces...Albiflora; blanc carné, passant au blanc pur, odeur de la rose ...2 fr. 50

Book  (Apr 1907)  Page(s) 19.  
 
85. ** ALBIFLORA Type Species
(1) ** 1815, Bot. R gister. Vol. 1, No. 42.
(2) 1837, Hovey's Mag Vol. 3, p. 285.
(3) * 1886, The Garden Vol. 30, p. 589.
(4) * 1887, Jour, of Hort. Vol. 15, 3rd Ser. p. 231.
(5) 1888, The Garden. Vol. 33, p. 602.
(6) 1889, The Garden, Vol. 36, p. 9.
(7) * 1890 Gard. Chron. Vol 7, 3rd Ser. p. 737.
(8) * 1892, Wiener Illustrirte Garten-Zeitung. p. 142.
(9) 1893, Garden and' Forest, Vol. 6, p. 190.
(10) * 1893, Garden and Forefet, Vol. 6, p. 305.
(11) Cornell Plot No. 21.
(Note. References to Monographs are not included
here.)
 

Book  (Apr 1907)  Page(s) 53.  
 
508. **CHINE, DE ; P. albiflora
(1) **1893, Dictionnaire d' Horticulture.
 

Book  (Apr 1907)  Page(s) 75.  
 
766. EDULIS ; P
(1) Cornell Plot No. 522.
 

Book  (1907)  Page(s) 3.  
 
Peonia Albiflora, Pallas. A Siberian species introduced about 1756, and one of the forerunners of the hybrid herbaceous forms, two to three feet high, with deep, rich green, often veined red leaflets, and bearing clusters of three or more very large, broad, overlapping petaled white to light pink single flowers, and showing globular masses of golden anthers in the center of each. June. Reevesiana, Fragrans, Whitleyi and Festiva show close affinity to this species.
 

Book  (1896)  Page(s) 30.  Includes photo(s).
 
Pæonia albiflora (white-flowered). 2 to 5 feet; the long smooth stalks are often branched towards the summit, and bear from two to five flowers.  The leaves are of a brighter hue than usual in the genus, and sometimes the veins and the edges of the leaflets are tinged with red.  The leaflets are 3 or 4 inches long, often running together at the base.  There is usually a simple leaf a little below the flower, and immediately beneath the calyx a couple of leafy bracts.  The flowers are from 4 to 6 inches across, fragrant, normally white, but under cultivation they exhibit various degrees of coloration in yellow, rose, crimson, and purple; some self-coloured, others streaked or striped.  Flowers May and June.  The follicles in this species are not more than an inch long, smooth and recurved.  The natives of Mongolia use its tubers and seeds as food, hence one of its synonyms is P. edulis.

Book  (1893)  Page(s) 909.  Includes photo(s).
 
P. albiflora Willd. (Syn.: P. edulis Salisb.; P. sinensis Hort.) Pivoine à odeur de rose, P. de Chine. (fig. 649). - Sibérie, Tartarie.- Vivace. Tiges rameuses, formant touffes larges et hautes de 70 cm. à 1 m.; feuilles biternées, à folioles ovales lancéolées, glabres, luisantes; tiges rameuses, portant plusieurs fleurs (2-3, rarement 4-5), au lieu d'une, comme dans les esp. suivantes; en mai-juin, fl. simples, blanc pur ou légèrement carnées, larges d'environ 10-12 cm., à odeur de rose.
A produit une multitude de variétés (plus de 200) doubles et pleines, par dédoublement des étamines en organes pétaloïdes plus ou moins larges, ou plus ou moins entiers ou frangés. Dans ces fleurs doubles et pleines, les pétales extérieurs, entiers ou frangés, peuvent être plus ou moins grands et étalés, simulant comme une collerette, soit de même couleur que le reste de la fleur, soit plus foncé ou plus pâle. Les coloris qui sont les plus communs sont: blanc carné, jaune de divers tons, rose vif, rouge, cramoisi, amarante, pourpre vif, pourpre violacé, etc.; uni- ou bicolores....