The city flower of Yancheng is purple violet and peony.

Peony has the reputation of "King of Flowers" because of its brilliant color, jade smile, pearl fragrance, elegant style, and richness. In the cultivation type, it can be divided into hundreds of varieties mainly according to the color of the flower." There are many varieties of peonies and many colors, with yellow, green, fleshy red, deep red, and silver red being the best, especially yellow and green being the most expensive. Peony flowers are large and fragrant, so it is also called "national color and fragrance".

The purple violet has a beautiful flower posture, colorful flowers, and a long flowering period from June to September, so it is known as "100 days of red", and it is very popular among the people. Distributed throughout East China, Central and Southwest China.

Expanded Information

Morphological Characteristics of Peony: Peony is a deciduous shrub. The stem reaches up to 2 meters high; the branches are short and thick. Leaves are usually bicompound, occasionally 3-foliolate near the top of branches; terminal leaflet broadly ovate, 7-8 cm long, 5.5-7 cm wide, 3-lobed to the middle, lobes undivided or 2-3-lobed, surface green, glabrous, abaxial surface light green, sometimes white powdered, sparsely pubescent or subglabrous along the veins, petiolules 1.2-3 cm long.

Lateral leaflets narrowly ovate or oblong-ovate, 4.5-6.5 centimeters long, 2.5-4 centimeters wide, unequally 2-lobed to 3-lobed or unlobed, subsessile; petiole 5-11 centimeters long, and leaf rachis glabrous.

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