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1st tree peony bloom - need id help please

6 years ago

This waist high, 7 yo tree peony just opened its blooms last night. While beautiful, it is obviously not the advertised Shima-Nishiki. Any thoughts to what kind it would be, would be much appreciated - thanks!!!

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6 years ago

Could still be Shima-Nishiki as the flowers vary in coloration each year. The form is right but the color could be anything from white/white with pink streaks/ white with red streaks/red(current color never a true red) with white streaks/this color solid. Sometimes all colorations on the same plant. Weather seems to effect the color.

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the_bustopher z6 MO
6 years ago
What color is your tree peony in question? I ask this because digital cameras are not always very accurate with some of the reds. Yours looks more purple. Is that the case? Shima-nishiki is not purple at all. Below are a couple of pics of mine.

The above picture is from last year, 2017. As you can see, it is not purplish. The next picture is from this year, a few days ago.

In this one, you can see that there is a solid color flower, but it is red. It had evidently reverted back to its sport parent variety, Taiyo. It had 2 solid reds this year with 3 striped ones. I have seen roses do this that are sports also. They can revert back to their sport parents sometimes with incompletely colored flowers. The flowers on yours also look like they have more petals than mine, but that can vary between flowers. I have no idea what you have there, but it is pretty no matter what it is. Maybe this will help in some small way.
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User
6 years ago
It is not a reversion but just something this cultivar does. Er Qiao does the same. Each year the plant will have blooms of various shades of red and white.
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the_bustopher z6 MO
6 years ago
I actually have another weird one going as well. My Hephestos just opened this morning, and usually it is a sort of dark red with not too many petals. This morning it is more purple with a lot more petals to where it is fairly double. This is a new one to me.
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Embothrium
6 years ago
This morning it is more purple with a lot more petals to where it is fairly double.

A flowering of the under-stock?

On the other subject nishiki cultivars of various kinds of plants often produce a percentage of leaves or flowers that are solidly colored or nearly so.
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princeton701
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6 years ago
Thank you, everyone, for your thoughts. It's always bothered me that I don't know what variety it is.

Beautiful Shima nishiki, bustopher! I wish mine looked like that.

No, mine is definitely a purple (not red). As the petals are aging, I noticed that the edges of the petals have a distinctive edge, almost with a subtle silverish hue.

One of my tree peony friends (who has the largest private collection that I've ever heard of - yes, I'm totally in awe of him!) thinks it may be Lou Yang Hong. It's a district possibility, since it has that characteristic crowded interior growth, and the nursery that I got mine from also sells Lou Yang Hong.
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