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Taxon:  Paeonia ×suffruticosa Andrews



Summary
Genus:
Paeonia
Section:
Moutan
Subsection:
Vaginatae
Family:
Paeoniaceae
Nomen number:
26332
Place of publication:
Bot. Repos. 6: t. 373. 1804
Comment:
authorship of names in this work follows Melbourne ICN Art. 46.8; there is no internal evidence in the work for any author other than Andrews (fide K. Gandhi, pers. comm. on 7 Aug 2006)
Verified:
10/05/2011 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in Australian Pastures Genebank. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Paeonia suffruticosa Andrews subsp. suffruticosa

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Paeonia arborea Donn ex K. Koch
Paeonia moutan Sims
Paeonia papaveracea Andrews
Paeonia suffruticosa Andrews var. papaveracea (Andrews) J. Kern.
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Reference(s)
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Common names
English
moutan peony –
tree peony –
French
pivoine en arbre –
German
Strauch-Pfingstrose –
Portuguese (Brazil)
paeônia –
Swedish
buskpion –
Transcribed Chinese
mu dan –
Transcribed Korean
moran –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
2Cultivated     
Cultivated ()
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Environmentalornamental Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992
Medicinesfolklore McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://apg.pir.sa.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=26332. Accessed 4 August 2025.


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