'May Music' Peony

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'May Music' peony Description

My HMF:

Photo courtesy of Jill Stevens

Availability:

Commercially available

Synonyms:

• Saunders #16209

HMF Ratings:

8 favorite votes.

Origin:

Bred by Prof. Arthur Percy Saunders (United States, 1949).
Introduced in United States by Reath's Nursery in 1973 as 'May Music'.

Class:

Hybrid / Species crosses.

Bloom:

Apricot - buff, crimson flares. Single, cupped bloom form. Early-to-mid.

Habit:

Height: 3' (90cm).

Growing:

USDA zone 2a and warmer.

Patents:

Patent status unknown (to HelpMeFind).

Ploidy:

Diploid

Parentage:

Lactiflora × Saunders #14255

Notes:

The seed parent was a pink Japanese-type hybrid lactiflora.
[From American Peony Society Bulletin, December 1945:] "I have a strain of these crosses, Otto Froebel x 5397 which crossed with Chinese peonies represents the combination of the four species, Mlokosewitschi, macrophylla, officinalis and sinensis. The plants are sterile and the flowers more uniform in character than oine might expect."
May Music