Purple Peony
Properties of Purple Peony Plant
Chinese Name: Purple PeonyAlias: Latin Name: Paeonia delavayi FranchFamily and Genus: Paeoniaceae, PaeoniaDistribution: Western ChinaIntroduction to Purple Peony Plant
The purple peony is a sub-shrub, entirely hairless. The stem can reach 1.5 meters in height, with the current year's young branches being herbaceous, and the base of the branches having several scales. The leaves are bipinnately compound; the leaf blade is broadly ovate or ovate in outline, pinnately lobed, with lobes lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate. The sepals are broadly ovate, of unequal sizes. The petals are red or purplish red, obovate in shape; the blooming period is May, and the fruiting period is July to August. The peony with purple petals symbolizes "embarrassment," with an attribute of darkness. The root bark is used for clearing heat and cooling blood, treating conditions like hemoptysis, hematuria, dysentery, and dysmenorrhea.
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