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PRICING - Intersectional peonies are $79 each.
Shipping & Handling is $15.00 for every two intersectionals shipped.

ABOUT INTERSECTIONAL PEONIES
The group of peonies referred to as Intersectional or Itoh peonies are relatively new introductions. They are a hybrid produced by crossing a tree peony with an herbaceous peony. Mr. Toichi Itoh of Japan is credited with being the first to do this successfully. He crossed Paeonia x lemoninei , a hybrid tree peony, with P. lactiflora 'Kakoden', a white-flowered herbaceous peony. The tree peony was used as the pollen parent, the herbaceous as the seed parent. The crossing produced 36 seedlings, nine of which had dominant characteristics of tree peonies and became the first Itoh hybrids. Four of these seedlings, with permission from Mr. Itoh's widow, were patented by Louis Smirnow in the late 1960's. The American Peony Society refers to this new group as the Itoh Hybrids Group, but more widely the original four are the Itoh Hybrids and all subsequent hybrids are referred to as intersectionals.

This group of plants is only now becoming widely available, coming down in price from up to 1,000 per plant in the late 1990's to less than 100 more recently. The leaves and flowers resemble tree peonies, but the foliage is herbaceous. One plant may produce 50 or more dinner-plate sized flowers on strong short stems that do not require staking. They reach peak bloom near the end of the herbaceous peony bloom. Each plant can remain in bloom for 3-4 weeks. They can be used as cut flowers and offer an astounding array of yellows and golds -- colors not widely available in herbaceous peonies. They are disease resistant, less susceptible to powdery mildew than their herbaceous parent and less susceptable to botrytis blight than their tree peony parent. Hybridization and cultivation methods continue to be active.

Original Toichi Itoh Hybrids - Introduced in the United States by Louis Smirnow in the late 1960's
P. 'Yellow Crown', P. 'Yellow Dream', P. 'Yellow Heaven', P. 'Yellow Emperor'

Intersectional Peony - Bartzilla

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