Wei Purple

Deciduous shrub, medium tall plant type, half open, beautiful and generous. The branches are stout, the annual branches are shorter, and the internodes are shorter. Medium round leaves, total petiole about 10 cm long, stout branches, annual branches shorter, shorter internodes.

Wei Zi is a traditional peony variety. Ouyang Xiu “Luoyang Peony record” records: “Wei family flower, thousand leaf meat safflower, from Wei Xiang (Renpu) home. The first woodcutter saw it in Shouan Mountain and was hacked to sell the Wei family. Wei’s pool hall is very large, the transmission cloud: when this flower first emerged, people have to read, people tax ten money, but have to board the boat crossing pool to the flower, Wei’s day to collect ten min. Later, he sold his garden, and now the forest pond after Puming Temple was its land, and the monks cultivated it to plant mulberry wheat. There are many flowers in the people’s home, people have their leaves, clouds to seven hundred leaves. Qian Sigong tasted and said: ‘People call peony the king, Yao Huang Zhen is the king, and Wei Hua is the queen.'”