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Peony Collection (page 2)

Background imagePeony Collection: Paeonia sp. paeony

Paeonia sp. paeony
Plate 4 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imagePeony Collection: Paeonia moutan cv

Paeonia moutan cv
Plate 8 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imagePeony Collection: Paeonia officinalis, common peony

Paeonia officinalis, common peony
Drawing by Arthur Harry Church, 1906. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imagePeony Collection: Paeonia officinalis, peony

Paeonia officinalis, peony
Watercolour 5 by G. van Kouwenhoven from the Dutch Collection. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imagePeony Collection: Paeonia veitchii, veitchii peony

Paeonia veitchii, veitchii peony
Dried specimen of Paeonia veitchii, veitchii peony stored in the museum herbarium, plant collected in 1945

Background imagePeony Collection: Paeonia corallina

Paeonia corallina. Dried specimen from the museum herbarium. Origin Steep Aohimes, cultivated at Sedbury. Collected 21.5.06

Background imagePeony Collection: Paeonia officinalis, common peony

Paeonia officinalis, common peony
Drawing 1/25 made in 1905 by Arthur Harry Church (1865-1937). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imagePeony Collection: Paeonia suffruticosa, tree peony

Paeonia suffruticosa, tree peony
Plate 2 from Delineation of exotic plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew (1796) by Franz Andreas Bauer (1758-1840). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imagePeony Collection: Pivoine odorante, moutan peony

Pivoine odorante, moutan peony
Painting by Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840), from his publication Choix des plus belles fleurs (The Most Beautiful Flowers), c. 1827-33

Background imagePeony Collection: Peony blossoms

Peony blossoms. Date 1755

Background imagePeony Collection: Peony lantern

Peony lantern. Print shows the ghostly figures of a woman with a servant or girl carrying a peony lantern. Date 188-

Background imagePeony Collection: Donsu, damask with light green peony arabesque

Donsu, damask with light green peony arabesque

Background imagePeony Collection: Peony and canary

Peony and canary. Date 1833 or 1834

Background imagePeony Collection: Plants / Paeonia

Plants / Paeonia
PEONY

Background imagePeony Collection: Camellia & Insect

Camellia & Insect
Oriental style depiction of a pink peony-form camellia showing the branch, leaves, bud and fully opened flower plus a strange black insect



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