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As part of our ongoing quest for a long-term stored peony of good quality, here are the results of...
Mass production of hybrids
Trials and tribulations
When missing a green thumb
khurtekant posted in the group Species Peonies International Network (SPIN)
For Uwe @manolito some images of roots of P. macrophylla. From North Eastern Turkey, wild plants. As you can see: carrot shaped roots, (sometimes very) long and rather slender. Images from Cemal Sandalli, Turkish scientist, working on a paper describing this species in more detail. Publication forthcoming.
If I don’t forget it (which I quite often do) I always take some images of the roots of my species plants whenever I move or divide them. Given that I often loose them afterwards you might say it’s for ‘nostalgic’ reasons mostly. The roots are an important determination characteristic when trying to classify species plants, but you don’t often see…Read More
I’ll post images of P. macrophylla in another post (I can then publish more than one image).
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Koen , do you have a picture of the roots of a P. macrophylla ? – and a good hand for the P. sterniana .