Paeonia mascula
Coral peony
Called The coral peony ( Paeonia mascula ), also Moreton Bay peony, is a species of plant in the genus of peonies (Paeonia ) within the family of peony plants ( Paeoniaceae ). In addition to the commons peony ( Paeonia officinalis) is the most famous european Peony kind.
Description
The coral peony is a perennial, herbaceous plant that reaches the plant height of about 20 to 80 centimeters. The leaves are simple biternat, or with a few divided leaves; nine to 16 segments (up to 21), narrowly to broadly elliptic to oval or round, at the bottom smooth or hairy.
The flowers are pink, rarely white (Paeonia mascula subsp. Hellenica ) and about eight to 14 inches in size with five petals. It has numerous yellow stamens that are fused at their base to a fleshy ring that secretes nectar.
A special feature of this Peony style with 3.6 million has the highest known pollen number per flower.
Artabgrenzung and subspecies
The Coral Peony is a tetraploid species within its range in the Mediterranean countries and, due to numerous subspecies and similarities with the sympatric, closely related and form- rich Mediterranean peonies to the difficult accrued European taxa. It is best to delineate by a fleshy root and the differently shaped leaves of the diploid Paeonia Paeonia officinalis daurica and the tetraploid.
By glacial area narrowing and between - and post-glacial spread of the Mediterranean area Peonies are a taxonomically difficult deferrable group. Many of the persons mentioned in this species with close relationship to coral peony as Paeonia arietina, Paeonia broteroi, Paeonia cambessedesii, Paeonia clusii, P. corsica, Paeonia daurica, Paeonia kesrouanensis, Paeonia officinalis, Paeonia peregrina, Paeonia saueri were partially Paeonia mascula (Paeonia arietina, P. corsica, daurica Paeonia, Paeonia kesrouanensis ) asked and made the coral peony long time to taxonomically difficult peony style with a European distribution. But true that the taxonomic revision of the coral peony can be regarded as not yet completely finished even now, as it currently appears in Paeonia mascula Miller ( syn. Paeonia corallina Retzius ) assumed three subspecies:
- Paeonia mascula (L.) Miller subsp. mascula
- Paeonia mascula (L.) Miller subsp. hellenica Tzanoudakis
- Paeonia mascula (L.) Miller subsp. russoi ( Biv. ) Cullen & Heywood
The nominate Paeonia mascula subsp .. mascula is spread over a larger area of France on the Apennine Peninsula and the Balkans to settle without Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily. In Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, but occasionally also in Western Greece and northern Spain, the subspecies P. mascula will then subsp. russoi, the subspecies P. mascula subsp. hellenica is known of Euboea, Attica and the Peloponnese.
For other authors, the following sub- types are additionally distinguished:
- Paeonia mascula (L.) Miller subsp. coriacea ( Boiss. ) Malagarriga (syn.: P. corsica replacement); it occurs in Spain, Corsica and Morocco
- Paeonia mascula (L.) Miller subsp. icarica Tsan. , it occurs only in the Aegean
- Paeonia mascula (L.) Miller subsp. triternata ( Boiss. ) Stearn & Davis; it occurs in Romania, in the Crimea, in the Aegean and in Asia Minor.
A diacritic key to Artabgrenzung of Mediterranean Peonies is by the hair of individual plant parts ( carpels, leaves), leaf shape and root morphology for the experienced herbalists promising, only a few species are easier to assign also by their flower color of their origin.
Occurrence
Ornamental plant
The coral peony is used in gardens as an ornamental plant and can grow well through their smaller stature in the rock garden. She is tough and can be used in full sun, but also slightly shaded by fruit trees or shrubs thrive summer. Peonies generally like waterlogging and prefer rather Sandy -loamy soils that are well drained. The flower lasts only briefly and is therefore in ornamental uninteresting.
Swell
- De -Yuan Hong, Xiao- Quan Wang: The identity of P. corsica Sieber ex Tausch ( Paeoniaceae ), with special reference to its relationship with P. mascula ( L.) Mill In: Feddes Repertorium. Volume 117, Issue 1-2, 2006, pp. 65-84.
- De -Yuan Hong, Xiao- Quan Wang, Da -Ming Zhang, S. Tugrul Koruklu: Paeonia daurica Andrews or P. mascula ssp. triternata ( Pall. ex DC. ) Stearn & PH Davis ( Paeoniaceae )? In: Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 154 (1 ), 2007, pp. 1-11.
- De -Yuan Hong, Xiao- Quan Wang, Da -Ming Zhang, S. Tugrul Koruklu: On the circumscription of Paeonia kesrouanensis, at east Mediterranean peony. In: Nordic Journal of Botany. 23 (4 ), 2003, pp. 395-400.