What does the peony flower symbolize
This article provides an in-depth introduction to the symbolic meaning of peony flowers and the related contents of peony's implications and flower language in green plants. Detailed information is provided below.
Alias of peony flower: Willpart, Parting Grass, Lazy Spring, Remaining Grace, Leopard Food, Boneless Flower, Black Pull夷, Red Medicine, etc.
I. Flower Language
Its flowers are large with bright and diverse colors, which can even rival peonies and are deeply loved by people. Its flower language is beautiful and moving, with deep affection, difficulty in parting, and reluctance to let go. It is usually used to express the feeling of regret at parting, hence it is also known as Willpart Grass.
II. Symbolic Meaning
Like peonies, peonies are also flowers of wealth and rank, symbolizing beauty and nobility. In ancient times, people sent them to each other to convey longing, expressing their思念 for each other, as well as regret at parting and sadness. In addition, it also symbolizes steadfast friendship.
III. Legends
It is said that, like peonies, they are not ordinary flowers. One year, when there was a plague in the world, the flower god or the fairy girl stole the fairy pill of the Queen Mother and sprinkled it in the mortal world, some of which turned into peonies and the rest into peonies. Therefore, the leaves and rhizomes of peonies and peonies can be used as medicine.
Morphological Characteristics
Preferred sunlight, drought-resistant. The development of peony plants throughout the year, with the change of climatic rhythms, is mainly manifested as alternating changes between the growing period and the dormant period. Among them, the vernalization stage of the dormant period and the photoperiodic stage of the growing period are the most critical. The vernalization stage of peonies requires a low temperature of 0℃ for about 40 days to complete. Then the mixed buds can germinate and grow. Peonies belong to long-day plants, and the flower buds need to develop and bloom under long-day conditions. After the mixed buds germinate, if the lighting time is insufficient or under short-day conditions, they usually only grow leaves and do not bloom or have abnormal blooming.
Roots
The roots consist of three parts: root neck, tuberous root, and fibrous root. The root neck (different from "rhizome", the root neck is root, and the rhizome is stem) is the upper part of the root, with a darker color and buds; the tuberous root grows from below the root neck, fleshy, strong, spindle-shaped or cylindrical, 0.6-3.5 cm in diameter, with a light yellow-brown or gray-purple exterior and white interior, rich in nutrients. The tuberous root generally does not directly produce buds, but can produce smaller new buds after breaking. Therefore, collecting broken roots 5 cm or more in the autumn can also be used for propagation. The fibrous roots mainly grow from the tuberous roots, are the main organs for absorbing water and nutrients, and can gradually evolve into tuberous roots. The roots of peonies, according to their appearance, are generally divided into three types: thick-rooted, slope-rooted, and even-rooted. Thick-rooted, the roots are sparse and thick; slope-rooted, the roots extend in all directions, with varying thickness; even-rooted, the roots are appropriately sparse, with uniform thickness. The roots can be used as medicine.
Buds
They grow in clusters on the root neck, fleshy, overwintering underground in winter, and sprouting out of the ground in early spring as the temperature rises. Initially, they are water red to light purple, or also yellow, and after growing out of the ground, the color deepens, generally becoming deep purple, protected by scales. Peony buds are mixed buds, developing into both reproductive organs - flowers, and nutritional organs - stems and leaves. Before sprouting, the buds are 2.5-4 cm long. The color and shape of the buds after growing out of the ground may vary depending on the variety, ranging from deep purple to brown, and the bud shapes can be divided into three types: short round, bamboo shoot, and pen tip. Short round, the bud body is short, with a blunt round tip; bamboo shoot, the bud body is long, with an acute tip, resembling a bamboo shoot; pen tip, the bud body is long, with a gradually pointed tip, resembling the tip of a writing brush. Peony sprouting is one of the most spectacular scenes, as it embodies the germination and vitality of life, hence it has high ornamental value.
Stems
Growing in clusters from the roots, about 50-110 cm tall, herbaceous, the stem base is cylindrical, the upper part has many angles, some twisted, some straight, and the sun-exposed part is often purplish red.
Leaves
The lower part has two-pinnate compound leaves, i.e., the leaf tip consists of three small leaves forming a cluster, and there are another cluster on each side, usually with four small leaves in each cluster. The middle compound leaves have the same three small leaves at the tip, and the number of small leaves on the sides begins to decrease, from the original four gradually reduced to three, two, or one, or even disappear, when disappeared, only three small leaves form the terminal, which is called tripinnate compound leaves, and the upper leaves are single. The leaves are 20-24 cm long, the small leaves are elliptical, narrowly ovate, needle-shaped, etc., with long and pointed tips, slightly wavy margins, densely covered with white bony fine teeth, the leaf surface is yellowish green, green, and dark green, the back is mostly粉 green, with or without hair. The leaves of peonies also have ornamental value, as "Red lanterns shimmering green dragon" refers to the leaves, so they can also be used as ornamental foliage plants.
Flower Buds
Peony buds are mixed buds, belonging to the underground bud type, which sprout and grow leaves and bloom after emerging from the ground. Mixed buds are a complex of various primordia, including the apical growth point, bud scales, axillary bud primordia within the bud scales, leaf primordia, axillary bud primordia within the leaf primordia, bract primordia, sepal primordia, petal primordia, stamen primordia, and pistil primordia. This bud is called the mother bud, while the axillary bud primordia within the bud scales and leaf primordia are the original bodies of the daughter buds. The axillary bud primordia within the leaf primordia and their axillary bud primordia do not produce bud scales and are naked buds; while the axillary bud primordia within the bud scales have scales and form scaly buds. In spring, the scaly buds germinate, and the daughter naked buds emerge from the ground with the elongation of the internodes of the mother mixed buds, forming flower branches or branches on the trunk; their daughter scaly buds do not emerge from the ground. After the aerial parts wither in the fall, the daughter scaly bud at the top of the peony root neck becomes the "top bud". In fact, peonies have only one top bud, which is the top bud of the seedlings after seed germination. The following year, this daughter scaly bud germinates from the ground, grows branches, unfolds leaves, and blooms. Therefore, the life cycle of裸芽 is 2 years, while the life cycle of scaly buds is 3 years.
Peony's underground scaly bud axillary buds appear around August, and the apical growth point gradually forms bud scale primordia from the outside to the inside. By the following May, four bud scales have been formed around the growth point. By the end of June, the bud scales have differentiated. Then, the apical growth point begins to produce leaf primordia, which have multiple digitate protrusions, while the bud scale primordia have only 1-3. Leaf primordium differentiation ends from the first ten days of August to the first ten days of September.
Flower Buds
The shapes include round peach, flat round peach, oblate peach, pointed round peach, long round peach, pointed peach,歪尖 peach, long pointed peach, and flat peach. The outer sepals are 5, leafy-lanceolate, green, decreasing in size from bottom to top; the inner sepals are 3 (not including variants), green or yellow-green, sometimes with yellow-white stripes or purple-red stripes, ovoid,宽卵形, round, elliptical, or irregular in shape.
Flowers
Usually singly located at the top or near the top of the stem or axil of the upper leaves, and some rare varieties have 2 or 3 flowers together. The original species has white flowers, a flower diameter of 8-11 cm, 5-13 petals, obovate, with many stamens, yellow filaments, a shallow cup-shaped floral disk surrounding the base of the carpels, with a blunt tip, the carpels are hairless or pubescent, with a beak at the top; horticultural varieties have a rich color palette, including white, pink, red, purple, yellow, green, black, and bicolors, flower diameter 10-30 cm, petals can reach hundreds, with some varieties having up to 880, and various flower shapes. The flowering period is May to June, and the fruiting period is August.
Fruit
Capsule fruit, spindle-shaped, elliptical, bottle-shaped, etc.; smooth or finely pubescent, with small prominences. 2-8 free, formed by a single carpel, with 1室, containing 5-7 seeds. It has medicinal value.
Seeds
Black or dark brown, large seeds, round, oblong, or pointed round.
Growth Environment
Peonies are cold-resistant, fertilizer-loving, afraid of waterlogging, prefer moist soil, but also drought-resistant, sun-loving, and prefer cool climate in summer. Peonies in pots are prone to burned leaves under the strong sun in midsummer, and should be shaded accordingly. Peonies have fleshy roots and a long root system, so they should be planted in fertile, loose, and well-drained sandy loam, and are prone to rotting roots when planted in clayey and waterlogged areas.
After peonies are planted, they should not be moved frequently, otherwise the roots will be damaged, affecting growth and flowering. To ensure good growth of peonies, reasonable fertilization is needed every year.
For potted peonies, cut off the withered branches and leaves after the frost to prevent the breeding of diseases and insects. During the winter, there is no need to move them indoors, just place them in a sunny area on the balcony or eaves, and keep the potting soil from becoming too dry.
Propagation Methods
Peony propagation methods can be divided into: seed propagation, division propagation, cutting propagation, etc.
First, seed propagation.
(1) Seed collection: When the fruit color turns yellow, it can be collected. If collected too late, the seed coat will become black and hard, and it will not be easy to germinate. If collected too early, the seeds may not be fully developed. Peony fruits mature in batches, so they should be collected in batches. As soon as the peony fruit skin cracks, the seeds can be collected and directly sown.
(2) Sowing method: 1. Seed treatment: Before sowing, the impurities wrapped around the seeds need to be removed, and then the seeds should be soaked in clean water for a few minutes to allow the unripe seeds to float, and then the floating seeds should be removed. Seeds treated in this way have a high germination success rate after sowing. 2. Bed sowing: Before sowing, the land needs to be prepared, and organic fertilizer needs to be applied during the preparation. After applying organic fertilizer, the land should be raked fine and level. After the land is prepared, the ridges need to be made. The ridge width should be 50 cm, and the row spacing should be 30 cm. After the ridges are made, the seeds should be sown according to the row spacing of 6 cm and a distance of 3 cm between each seed. After sowing, the seeds should be covered with soil, about 2 cm higher than the ground. Using the point sowing method, 50 kg of seeds are needed per 667 square meters.
Second, division propagation.
(1) Division time: The best time for division is before the soil freezes. During this period, the temperature underground is still high, which is beneficial for the healing of root wounds. If division is done in the spring, the roots will not be able to absorb nutrients and water normally, easily causing plant death.
(2) Division method: When dividing, the peony roots need to be carefully dug to avoid damaging the roots. After digging out the roots, the soil on them should be removed, the old and decayed parts should be cut off, and then the roots should be split along the natural cracks. Each plant can be divided into about 3-5 daughter plants, each with 3-5 buds. Peony roots are easily broken, so before dividing the daughter plants, the roots should be dried in the sun for 1 day. After dividing into several daughter plants, they should be dried in the shade first, then dipped in some nutritious mud, and can be planted.
Third, cutting propagation.
The cutting bed should be selected with good drainage and higher terrain. After selecting the bed, the bed soil should be loosened, and then a layer of disinfected river sand should be spread on it, about 15 cm thick. The cutting matrix can use perlite, and a 1.5-meter-high sun-shading shed should be set up above the bed. The cuttings are best taken in mid-July. The length of the cuttings should be 10-15 cm, with two nodes and a small amount of leaves at the top. After the cuttings are taken, they should be inserted into the soil, with a depth of 5 cm and a distance between each cutting so that the leaves do not overlap. After insertion, water should be poured once, and then covered with plastic. The temperature in the cutting shed should be 20-25 degrees, and the temperature of the matrix should be 28-30 degrees. After cutting, it will take 20-30 days to root. After rooting, the amount of watering should be reduced, and the shading shed and plastic shed should be gradually removed.
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