Seedhead. Pretty weird or weirdly pretty? You tell me. Botanical garden Kumpula, Helsinki, Finland. Planted. 1999-09-07.
Paeonia obovata Maxim.
Engl.: Chinese peony.
TCM: cao shao yao.
Bot. syn.: Paeonia oreogeton S. Moore
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