Registered cultivar

Red Peony

Clivia miniata · The flower is orange red (RHS Color Chart, Orange-red Group, 32B) with light green throat (RHS Color Chart, Yellow-green Group, 150B) · China

Reference: LF/21

Approved
Red Peony
Photograph: Wang Chong

Description

In March 2000, 24 flowers were pollinated in the cross of ‘WR’ and ‘ZC’. In 2008, 117 surviving seedlings flowered and one of the most promising double-flowered cultivars was evaluated in the greenhouse. In 2017 it was named for ‘Red Peony’. It is a double-flowered cultivar of 13 petals per flower on average. This cultivar has been published in HortScience on June, 2021: Chong Wang, Yang Song, Mingqian Wang, Jiajun Lei, Li Xue*, Shizhong He. Clivia miniata ‘Red Peony’: A new double-flowered clivia cultivar. HortScience, 2021,56(7): 851-852.

Photographs

  • Red PeonyWang Chong
  • Red PeonyWang Chong
  • Red PeonyWang Chong