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Peonie. Perennial herbaceous, semi-shrubby or shrubby plant with several stems (trunks) up to 1 m high. Rhizome large with powerful, thickened, pinealike roots. Flowers diameter up to 15-25 cm, single, with a cup and a whisk. Calyx remaining, more or less leathery, from 5 dark-green or reddish sepals; petals in number 5, rarely more, large, much larger than sepals, broad, often dented at the end, white, pink, red, cream or yellow, sometimes with dark spots at the base. Stamens are numerous; pistils 1-8, sitting on a fleshy disk.