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What is the language of peony?

The flower language of peony is "beautiful", "reluctant to part, hard to part". In ancient times, men and women used peony as a gift to express their feelings of love and farewell, so it is also known as "will leave the grass". Nowadays, peony has become the representative flower of Tanabata Festival and is the flower of love in China.

Paeonia lactiflora (scientific name: Paeonia lactiflora Pall.), also known as alias away from the grass, flowers in the prime minister, belongs to the order of the five forking fruits, paeoniaceae paeoniflora peoniflora group of perennial herbs. The caudex is produced from below the root neck, fleshy, stout, fusiform or long columnar, 0.6-3.5cm thick.

Paeoniflora Pall. has obovate petals and a shallow cup-shaped disk, with the flowers blooming from May to June, and the flowers are usually inserted in the apical or near-apical leaf axils of the stems, and the protologue has white flowers with 5 to 13 petals. Horticultural varieties of flowers are rich in color, white, pink, red, purple, yellow, green, black and compound colors, etc., flower diameter 10-30 cm, petals up to hundreds. The fruits are fusiform and the seeds are round, oblong or pointed.