In China, the cultivated tree peony is known as the King of Flowers, while in ancient Greece the herbaceous peony was dubbed the Queen of Herbs - a reminder that the genus "Paeonia" has been one of the most important and popular groups of plants in the world for millennia, coveted in East and West a[...]
This is the second part of the three volume set monograph Peonies of the World, a comprehensive taxonomic revision of the genus Paeonia. Part of Hong De-Yuan's extensive field work on the distribution of the genus Paeonia, and supported by the National Geographical Society, this book contains 356 co[...]