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Paeonia emodi Wall. (Paeoniaceae). Native of Pakistan and N. India from Chitral to Kashmir and W. Nepal, growing in forests and scrub, at 1800-2500m, flowering in April-June. Stems to 75 cm. Leaves deeply dissected into lanceolate segments, which are usually glabrous. Flowers white, 2-4 per stem, 8-12 cm across, with 5-10 petals. Carpels 1-2, hairy or glabrous. This is said to grow in large colonies in the wild and must be a fine sight when in flower. In cultivation it grows happily in sandy soil in a normal, moist herbaceous border. Hardy to -20oC.

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Paeonia mairei Léveillé. Native of China, in N Yunnan and W Sichuan, growing in steep open woods, scrub, and on mountainsides at 800-2900m, flowering in May-June. Stems 50-100 cm, usually 1-flowered; leaflets long, leaves long-acuminate or caudate at the apex, glabrous, thin in texture. Flowers 8-15cm across. Carpels glabrous or covered with short golden-brown hairs, 2-2.5cm long, attenuate towards the stigma. Close to P. obovata, but with narrower leaves, and found further south. This species should grow best in areas with a cool, moist summer in well-drained leafy soil.

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....Var. willmottiae (Stapf) Stern, from W Hubei and E Sichuan, has hairy undersides to the leaf, larger flowers, to 10 cm across and is earlier flowering, in May in gardens in S England...

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Paeonia obovata Maxim, var. alba Saunders Native of E Siberia, N China, in Heilongjiang (Manchuria), Shaansi, Sichuan, Sakhalin and Japan, in Hokkaido, Honshu and Shikoku; growing in woods and scrub in mountains, flowering in April-June ...