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Paeonia-Literatur 2006


Peony rockii and Gansu Mudan

Will McLewin Dezhong Chen

CONTENTS


Preface


INTRODUCTION 1

6

INTRODUCTION 2

9

SECTION 1: NAMES AND HISTORY

11

1. THE QUESTION OF NAMES

11

2. A BASIC OVERVIEW OF MUD AN CULTIVAR GROUPS AND WILD MUD AN SPECIES

17

3. PAEONIA ROCKII

25

4. MUDAN; GANSU MUD AN AND PAEONIA GANSU GROUP

35

5. 'ROCK'S PEONY'- THE TRUE STORY

39

5a. GENETIC FINGERPRINTING EVIDENCE

66

SECTION 2: PLANTS AND NURSERIES

69

6. BOTANICAL AND HORTICULTURAL FEATURES OF GANSU MUD AN

69

6.1 Morphology

69

6.2 Features during growth

76

7. CULTIVATION AND PROPAGATION

79

7.1 Cultivation

79

7.2 Propagation

82

8. NURSERIES AND PEOPLE

86

8.1 Peace Peony Nursery

86

8.2 Phedar Research and Experimental Nursery

91

8.3 La Pivoine Bleue

94

8.4 Contact addresses

95

SECTION 3: GANSU MUDAN CULTIVARS

97

9. CLASSIFICATION OF CULTIVARS AND CULTIVAR NAMES

97

9.1 Classification of cultivars and classification characters

97

9.2 Cultivar names

100

9.3 The use of cultivar names in practice

102

10. GANSU MUDAN CULTIVAR PICTURES, arranged by colour and form

104

SECTION 4: LISTS AND NOTES

255

11. MAIN CULTIVAR LIST AND NOTES

255

11.1 Main cultivar list in numerical order, with basic cultivar details

255

11.2 Explanatory Notes on the English Equivalents of Gansu Mudan Cultivar Names

267

11.3 Pronunciation of pinyin names

271

12. CULTIVAR REFERENCE LISTS

272

12.1 Pinyin cultivar names in alphabetical order

272

12.2 Chinese character cultivar names in numerical order

277

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001

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Wellesley-Cambridge Press

Peony rockii and Gansu Mudan

Copyright © by Will McLewin 2006

All rights reserved. No part of this work, text and pictures, may be reproduced or stored or transmitted by any means, including photocopying and scanning, without written permission from Wellesley-Cambridge Press.

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The moral right of Will McLewin and Dezhong Chen to be identified as authors of this work is asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988

Printed in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

ISBN 0-9614088-3-9

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

McLewin, Will Peony rockii and Gansu Mudan

1. Peonies

I.Title Il.Chen, Dezhong 635.9'3362

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