Chinese peony

Paeonia lactiflora

The birth flower for June 16

Location: Copilot
Location: Kyoto Botanical Garden
Location: Kyoto Botanical Garden
Location: Kyoto Botanical Garden
Location: Kyoto Botanical Garden
Location: Kyoto Botanical Garden
Location: Kyoto Botanical Garden
Location: Kyoto Botanical Garden
Location: Illust:Yuki @Kagiken (Science&Technology Inst.co.,Tokyo )
Location: Kyoto Botanical Garden
Location: Koishikawa Botanical Garden
Location: Koishikawa Botanical Garden
Location: Koishikawa Botanical Garden

Flower name
Chinese peony
Scientific name
Paeonia lactiflora
Alias芍薬, ぺオニア・ラクティフロラ, Chinese peony, common garden peony
Place of originTibet to Korean peninsula
Place of floweringGarden, Botanical Gardens
Flowering seasonApril, May, June
Language of flowersCleanliness

What is Chinese peony

Birth flowers for Jun 16

The birth flower for June 16 is Chinese peony(Paeonia lactiflora).
Aqua (Waterdrop Poetry), Copilot(Illustration), Editing & Translation: Mizuho @Kagiken.
A drop of flowers and poetry, one each day. From Kagiken's Flower Guide, we deliver words that bloom softly in your heart.

Chinese peony(Paeonia lactiflora), Illustrate by Copilot.
Note: The Japanese text in the illustration has the same meaning as Aqua's water droplet poem.
Aqua is a water spirit

💧Shizu’s Poem about Peony: “The Moment It Blooms Comes Suddenly”

by Aqua

The peony
suddenly unfurls its large blossoms one morning.
Your efforts, too,
will bloom in an instant.
You can trust that day will come.

Chinese peony

Chinese peony or Shakuyaku in Japanese ( Scientific name: Paeonia lactiflora) is a hardy perennial herb of Button family Paeoniaceae native to northern China to northern North Korea.
It came to Japan as a traditional Chinese medicine.
It is said that the root has a medicinal effect of convergence, antispasmodic and analgesic.
A large flower blooms in the stem tip. Many petals are about 10 petals, leaves are compatible with each other in compound leaves.
After flowers, fruits made up of 3 to 5 bags of fruits.

Common name: Chinese peony,
Scientific name: Paeonia lactiflora,
aka: Shakuyaku, Chinese peony, Common garden peony,
Place of origin: from Tibet to Korean Peninsula,
Plant height: from 50 to 90 cm,
flowering period: May to June, flower color: peach · white · yellow · red, flower size: 10 to 15 cm,
Medicinal effect: root, astringent, antispasmodic, analgesic.

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