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Is this P. Intermedia? What I can tell you is that it was grown from seed collected by Jim Archbald. The person who received this seed labelled the plant ‘rhodoptia’?
I understand the seed collector may have visited the area where P. intermedia grows,![]()
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Thanks for these comments
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This Peony was given to me 2004 by Jenny Archbald the widow of Jim Archbold. She said Jim grew the plant from seed collected by himself reference JJA19.199. It had never flowered. The pot was labelled 19.199
It first flowered in March 2011.
The photo of the plant in flower was taken in May 2021.
This year it has 12 flower buds and will…Read More![]()
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It is Paeonia wendelboi indeed. Very pretty and still very rare (and very expensive), not many people grow it so I’m sure there are many peony species lovers that are envious of your mature plant. The reference you give is to this species and in the Talysh mountains you have P. daurica ssp tomentosa on the side of the Caspian Sea at more or less…Read More
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Thanks for your comments. I was growing the plant in alkaline stony ground at my allotment, which has public access. I dug it up last Autumn and now keep it in a large terracotta pot at home. Photo taken today.
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No. The leaflets aren’t divided enough to be intermedia. The flowers are also not hanging as in that species. P. intermedia looks a lot like P. anomala. Your peoy looks like P. officinalis to me. I can’t see which subspecies, but the differences are sometimes small. P. intermedia grows in central Asia, P. officinals around the northern…Read More