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Synonyms: P. linyanshanii
Wild Distribution: S Gansu, W Henan, W Hubei, C & S Shaanxi, China.
Average Height: over 100cm
Average Spread: over 100cm
Life Cycle: Perennial
Plant Structure: Shrub
Deciduous/Evergreen: Deciduous
Flower Colour: white to rose with a dark purple centre
Leaf Colour: Mid green.
Difficulty: Hard
Sun/Shade: Partial Shade
Soil Type: Any
Moisture: Well Drained
A medium-sized tree peony with 2-3 pinnate lower leaves, cut into >20 segments. Flowers very large, petals white with a purple central blotch. Disc and carpels yellow.
Stems erect, woody, to 1.8 (-3) m, grey-brown, terminating in a large resting bud. Lower leaves green, glabrous above, the veins hairy below, 2-3 pinnate, divided into 19-33 lanceolate to ovate segments, 2-11 x 1.5 -4.5 cm, entire or lobed. Flowers folded and wavy, 13-19 cm diameter, white with a purple basal area; anthers and filaments yellow; carpels covered by a leathery lobed yellow disc, densely tomentose, with yellow stigmas. Subspecies taibaishanica has ovate to rounded entire leaflets. A most distinguished subject for a sheltered site, tolerant of lime and very hardy, to -43C when dormant, but susceptible to late frosts. For differences from P. ostii see under that species.
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