The peony or paeony (/ˈpiːəni/) is any flowering plant in the genus Paeonia, the only genus in the family Paeoniaceae. Peonies are native to Asia, Europe...
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Look up peony in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The peony is a flowering plant. Peony may also refer to: HMS Peony, the name of two Royal Navy ships...
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Peony, published in the UK as The Bondmaid, is a novel by Pearl S. Buck first published in 1948. It is a story of China's Kaifeng Jews. Peony is set in...
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The Peony Pavilion (Chinese: 牡丹亭; pinyin: Mǔdān tíng; Wade–Giles: Mu-tan t'ing), also named The Return of Soul at the Peony Pavilion, is a romantic tragicomedy...
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Tree peony is the vernacular name for the section Moutan of the plant genus Paeonia, or one of the species or cultivars belonging to this section. It...
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Paeonia rockii (redirect from Rock's peony)
Rock's peony, is a woody species of tree peony that was named after Joseph Rock. It is one of several species given the vernacular name tree peony, and...
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Peony Park was an amusement park located at North 78th and Cass Streets in Omaha, Nebraska. Founded in 1919, over the next seventy-five years the 35-acre...
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Peony in Love is the fifth of Lisa See's novels. Her previous novel, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, and Peony in Love emphasize the difficulty 19th- and...
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Paeonia × suffruticosa (redirect from Moutan peony)
Paeonia × suffruticosa is a name used for a group of cultivars of tree peonies that are the result of hybridisation with species exclusively belonging...
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HMS Peony, after the flower: HMS Peony (1915) was an Azalea-class sloop launched in 1915 and sold in 1919, becoming the mercantile Ardena. HMS Peony (K40)...
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Peony Pavilion is a 2001 Hong Kong drama film directed by Yonfan. It was entered into the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival where Rie Miyazawa won...
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The Jade Peony is a novel by Wayson Choy. It was first published in 1995 by Douglas and McIntyre. The novel features stories told by three siblings, Jook-Liang...
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Paeonia lactiflora (redirect from Chinese Peony)
Paeonia lactiflora (Chinese peony, Chinese herbaceous peony, or common garden peony) is a species of herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family...
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scholar and tries to advise the famous prostitute White Peony. In their first encounter, White Peony seduces him passionately, but he refuses to sleep with...
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alekˈsandra ˈkret͡su]; born 21 July 1993), known professionally as Ester Peony (formerly only Ester), is a Romanian singer and songwriter. She represented...
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to: Paeonia rockii, or Rock's peony, woody species of peony, known as 紫斑牡丹 in Chinese. Paeonia suffruticosa, or tree peony, known as 牡丹 in Chinese. Mudan...
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in the film and The Valiant Red Peony was a big hit. The Valiant Red Peony is the first episode in the Valiant Red Peony aka Hibotan Bakuto film series...
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with the naked eye. People often confuse the chrysanthemum stone with peony. Peony stone is also found in the Luoyang area and is also a kind of natural...
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USS Peony was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the final months of the American Civil War. She served the Union Navy's struggle against the...
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Black Woman with Peonies also known as Négresse aux pivoines, Young Woman with Peonies, or Negress with Peonies, is a series of two paintings created by...
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Paeonia tenuifolia (redirect from Fern leaf peony)
Paeonia tenuifolia is a herbaceous species of peony that is called the steppe peony or the fern leaf peony. It is native to the Caucasus Mountains, with...
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The Peony Pavilion is a 1998 production by Peter Sellars, in a mix of Chinese and English translation, of the Ming Dynasty play The Peony Pavilion. Part...
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using otividya. Odiyan is a legendary character who existed in Kerala. Peony appear as half-man, half-beast like creatures lurking in alleyways at night...
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Paeonia ludlowii (redirect from Tibetan tree peony)
Paeonia ludlowii is a deciduous shrub of medium height, belonging to the tree peony section Moutan of the genus Paeonia, and endemic to southeast Tibet. In...
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Baimudan tea (redirect from White Peony Tea)
(Chinese: 白牡丹; pinyin: bái mǔdān; Wade–Giles: pai2 mu3-tan1; lit. 'white peony') is a type of white tea made from plucks each with one leaf shoot and two...
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aglaophotis as a member of the peony family, Paeoniaceae. It has been speculated that the species Paeonia officinalis, the European peony, is the source of aglaophotis...
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The September 26 Peony Garden incident refers to the large-scale investigation of the Peony Garden, a gathering place for gay men, by the Beijing police...
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Melastoma affine (redirect from Chinese wild peony)
Melastoma affine, also known by the common names blue tongue, straits rhododendron or native lassiandra, is a shrub of the family Melastomataceae. Distributed...
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Paeonia parnassica (redirect from Greek peony)
Paeonia parnassica, the Greek peony, is a flowering plant in the Paeoniaceae family. It is native to the mountains of south-central Greece. The flowers...
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Paeonia delavayi (redirect from Delavay's tree peony)
peony family, and is endemic to China. The vernacular name in China is 滇牡丹 (diān mǔdan). In English it is called Delavay's tree peony, Delavay peony,...
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