Peony is one of the four famous products. Deciduous shrub with erect, thin, stiff branches and short, thick branches. The leaves are usually birecurvate compound, terminal leaflets broadly ovate, surface green, glabrous, abaxially pale green, sometimes white pink, sparsely pubescent or subglabrous along the veins. Flowers solitary branch apex, bracts 5, oblong, unequal in size; Sepals 5, green, broadly ovate, unequal in size; The flowers are crown shaped, sometimes golden ring shaped. Buds are rounded and pointed, often dehiscent at the end; Flowers pale yellow; Upper filaments white, anthers oblong, flower discs leathery, cup-shaped, purplish red; Carpellary 5, densely pilose. Follicle long round, dense yellowish brown stiff hair. Flowering in May; Fruit in June.
Yao Huang comes from the house of Yao Chong at the foot of Mount Mangshan in Luoyang, Luoyang, Song Dynasty. The flowers are light yellow at first and golden when they bloom. The flowers are higher than the leaf surface, the flowers are neat, the flower shape is full, the smell is fresh, and it is called “the King of Flowers”.
Luoyang peony a world, welcome to Luoyang to see peony

