plant

Peony

Nature

The named Paeonia bloom of Chinese mudan and Japanese botan speech. Not rose as the Lots deck flower, and not a bare garden-catalog dump.

Also known as Mudan · Botan · Paeonia

  • Peony is used in Medicine.

    Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists peony (παιωνία) root among epilepsy and cleansing drugs named for Paion. A named peony in that handbook, not East-Asian mudan court flower as this sentence and not rose as the neighboring bloom already seated in Pliny pharmacy.

    from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE

    used in · sourced · documented

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