The history of peony flowers?

1. Peony is native to the mountainous or hilly areas of the Yangtze River and Yellow River basins in China. People discovered its medicinal and ornamental value and changed it from wild to domestic.

2. The cultivation of peony as an ornamental plant began in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

3. In Sui Dynasty, the number and scope of peony planting began to expand gradually. At that time, peony was introduced and cultivated in the royal gardens and the gardens of dignitaries, initially forming a concentrated viewing scene.

During the Tang Dynasty, the society was stable and the economy was prosperous. Tang Dou Chang 'an Peony has developed rapidly on the basis of introducing Luoyang Peony. At that time, gardeners had planted peonies.

5. As Luoyang in Tokyo in Tang Dynasty, from the early Tang Dynasty to the later Tang Dynasty of Five Dynasties and Ten Countries, the peony planting industry continued to develop, and its scale was no less than that of Xijing Chang 'an.

6. In the Song Dynasty, the peony cultivation center was moved from Chang 'an to Luoyang, and the cultivation technology was more systematic and perfect, and the research on peony was greatly improved, and a number of theoretical monographs appeared. Among them, Ouyang Xiu's Luoyang Peony; Zhou's "Luoyang Peony" and "Luoyang Flowers and Trees"; Max Zhang's "Luoyang Flower Spectrum" and so on.

7. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the scale of Luoyang peony was unprecedented. At that time, Luoyang people not only loved to grow flowers, but also were good at cultivating new varieties. Peony "is not good without grafting" They fixed bud mutation and fine varieties by grafting, which was the most outstanding contribution in the Northern Song Dynasty.

8. Smoked flowers were very popular in Qing Dynasty.

1949 after the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC), the peony planting industry has been restored and developed, especially since the reform and opening up, the number of peony cultivated in various places has been increasing, and the level of cultivation technology has been improved year by year. Luoyang, Heze and other places have successively established peony research institutions-Peony Research Institute.

Extended data:

Morphological characteristics of peony flowers;

Peony is a deciduous shrub. The stem is 2 meters high; The branches are short and thick. The leaves are usually bipinnately compound, and occasionally the leaves near the top of the branches are 3 leaflets; The terminal leaflets are broadly ovoid, 7-8 cm long and 5.5-7 cm wide, 3-lobed in the middle, the lobes are undivided or 2-3-lobed, the surface is green, hairless, the back is light green, sometimes with white powder, sparsely pubescent or nearly hairless along the veins, and the petiole is 1.2-3 cm long.

Lateral leaflets narrowly ovate or oblong-ovate, 4.5-6.5 cm long and 2.5-4 cm wide, ranging from 2-lobed to 3-lobed or undivided, subsessile; The petiole is 5- 1 1 cm long, and the leaf axis is hairless.

Flower solitary branch apex, diameter10-17cm; Pedicel 4-6 cm long; Bracts 5, oblong, unequal in size; Sepals 5, green, broadly ovate, different in size; Petals 5, or double petals, rose, purple, pink to white, usually vary greatly, obovate, 5-8 cm long and 4.2-6 cm wide.

The top is irregular and wavy; Stamens are 1- 1.7 cm long, filaments are purplish red and pink, the upper part is white, about 1.3 cm long, and anthers are oval and 4 mm long. The disk is leathery, cup-shaped, purplish red, with several sharp teeth or lobes at the top, completely covering the carpel, and the carpel cracks when it matures; Carpels 5, rarer, densely pilose. Kelp is rectangular with dense yellow-brown bristles. Flowering in May; The fruiting period is June.

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