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Rock's Peony

Rock-Pfingstrose

Paeonia rockii

Botanischer Garten der Unversität Wien

 

Paeonia rockii was named after Joseph Rock (1884 – 1962), "an Austrian-American botanist, explorer, geographer, linguist, ethnographer and photographer" whose interesting biography you can read more about in the cited Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rock

 

Paeonia rockii "is native to the mountains of Gansu and adjoining provinces in China. In Chinese, it is known as 紫斑牡丹", which means "purple patch peony". On the inside of the otherwise white petals you can see purple patches below. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paeonia_rockii zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B4%AB%E6%96%91%E7%89%A1%E4%B8%B9

 

 

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