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What is the nickname of peony?

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Peony (scientific name: Paeonia× Peony. ) is a plant of Paeonia in Ranunculaceae. It is a perennial deciduous shrub with a stem as high as 2 meters; The branches are short and thick. The leaves are usually bipinnately compound, with green surface, hairless, light green back and sometimes white powder. The petiole is 5- 1 1 cm long and the leaf axis is hairless. Flowers solitary, bracts 5, oblong; Sepals 5, green, broadly ovate, petals 5 or double, rose, purple, pink to white, usually changing greatly, obovate, with irregular waves at the top; Anthers oblong, 4 mm long; Disk leathery, cup-shaped, purplish red; Carpels 5, densely pilose. _ _ Rectangular with dense yellow-brown bristles. Flowering in May; The fruiting period is June.

Flowers are colorful, jade smiles and pearls are fragrant, romantic and elegant, and they are known as "the king of flowers". In terms of cultivation types, it can be divided into hundreds of varieties mainly according to the color of flowers. Peony has many varieties and colors, with yellow, green, red meat, crimson and silver red as the top grades, especially yellow and green. Peony flower is big and fragrant, so it is also called "national color and fragrance".