sealflower

The purse peony is called purse peony because its leaves are like peony and flowers are purse-shaped, not because she is a peony.

Paeonia lactiflora is a perennial herbaceous flower of Paeonia. There are thick rhizomes underground, which are shaped like angelica, and the plant height is 30 cm to 60 cm. Leaves opposite, petiole long, three pinnate compound leaves. Leaflets are obovate with notches and wedges at the base, like peony leaves. Racemes, with several small flowers above 10, are planted on one side of the slender main stem with arch-shaped growth at the top of branches, with 4 petals arranged alternately in two layers. The outer two petals of pink or rose are combined to form a heart-shaped, and the base expands into a bag-like pouch, hence the name "Bag Peony". The inner two petals are pink and white, slender, protruding from the outer petals, wrapped outside the male and female pistils, like bells, so they are called Linger grass. It blooms from April to June, and after flowering, it bears slender round capsules with small seeds and crested hairs at the top.