Description
This is a garden stock of this rare and unusual herbaceous species from the far west of China and adjacent Tibet.
A taller plant than the perhaps related Paeonia veitchii with flowers of bright carmine red, the colour of raspberry water-ice. In the centre of the flower sits a yellow boss, made up of pendant yellow anthers hanging on long filaments which swing in the wind. The broad, blue-hinted leaves have a reddish tinge.
Stocks are always limited and this is a very choice and slow-growing plant, taking an age to make any size.
