What are the characteristics of peony flowers?

What are the characteristics of peony flowers? below we will answer them one by one from three aspects. Let's have a look at them if you are interested.

Morphological characteristics of peony flowers

Peony deciduous shrubs, so the plant type is small. This kind of plant grows slowly, the plant height is between 0.5 and 2 meters, the root is fleshy, thick and long, the center is lignified, the length is generally 0.5 to 0.8 meters, and a few roots are up to 2 meters in length; the color of root bark and root flesh varies from variety to variety; the branches are erect and brittle, round, shrubby for clumping several branches from the rhizome, and the branches of the current year are smooth, vegetation, yellowish brown, often cracking and peeling off. The leaves are alternate, the leaves are usually 2-Ternate, the upper part of the branch is often simple, the leaflets are lanceolate, oval, elliptic, etc., the terminal leaflet is often 2-3-lobed, the top of the leaf is dark green or yellowish green, and the lower is grayish green, smooth or hairy; the total petiole is 8-20 cm long, with grooves on the surface.

The peony flower is a bisexual flower born at the top of the branch of the same year, with a large color and beautiful shape, with a flower diameter of 10 to 30 meters. The colors of the peony flowers are white, yellow, pink, red, purple, purple), snow blue, green, and complex color. The male pistil often has petal phenomenon, the so-called petal phenomenon is affected by some special environment and produce complex changes, and make the stigma, filaments longer and wider petal-shaped phenomenon. The natural increase of petals and the degree of stamen and pistil petalization are related to varieties, cultivation environment conditions, growth years and so on.

Normal peony flowers have numerous stamens, strong seed-setting ability, high seed maturity, flowers with severe pistil petalization, few seeds but sterile or sterile, complete stamens free, carpels generally 5, less than 8, each with a bottle-shaped ovary, marginal placenta, most ovules, osteopodium, 713 seeds per pod, round seeds, common yellow when mature, and dark brown when old. The diameter of mature seeds is 0.6-0.9 mm, and the weight of 1000 seeds is about 400 grams.

Characteristics of growth habits of peony flowers

Peony is a kind of environment that likes warm, dry and sunny environment very much, but as a national flower, peony is also very resistant to cold and drought, but the editor only talks about drought tolerance, and the strong direct sunlight on peony is very bad. Another point is that peony can not accumulate too much water in the soil during its growth. For it, a loose, deep and fertile soil is the best environment for its growth. Relatively speaking, the high temperature and high humid weather in the south are not very good for the growth of peonies, and the beautiful peonies can only be seen under specific conditions.

The characteristics of the use of peony flowers

The use of ornamental must be very familiar to everyone. Here, we will focus on its edible and medicinal characteristics. In many places, peony petals are used as the custom of all kinds of color dishes, and peony flowers can also be used to steam wine, which tastes very fragrant. Not only that, the use of Cortex moutan as medicine can also achieve the effects of clearing away heat and cooling blood and analgesia, but it still needs to be used cautiously for pregnant women.