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Wild Distribution: Southern Spain, Morocco, Corsica, Sardinia.
Average Height: 60-100cm
Average Spread: 60-100cm
Life Cycle: Perennial
Plant Structure: Herb
Deciduous/Evergreen: Deciduous
Flower Colour: Pink to crimson-red
Leaf Colour: Pale, matt, rather bluish-green to dark, shiny green.
Difficulty: Hard
Sun/Shade: Sun
Soil Type: Alkaline
Moisture: Well Drained
A rather tall herbaceous peony with large divided leathery leaves and large erect pink to crimson flowers. Rarely grown.
An erect herbaceous perennial to 1 m in height with large, biternately divided glabrous leathery leaves of a pale slightly bluish-green (var. maroccana) to darker green and shiny, the segments 5-10 x 3-7 cm, obovate with rounded to obtuse apices. Flowers erect, dish-shaped, large, to 15 cm in diameter, pink (var. maroccana) to crimson; anthers yellow, long, to 1 cm, filaments pinkish; follicles 2-4, pink, glabrous, forming a distinct hooked style. Mostly on limestone mountain slopes, often near forest edges, flowering May. Rather inelegant and rarely grown.
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