Flower Of A Wild Peony, Paeonia Mascula, View Into The Blossom, Bavaria, Germany, Europe Stock Photography

Only 32 different species of peonies are known to date. Peonies have been cultivated in Chinese ornamental gardens for more than a thousand years. At the end of the 18th century, Europeans brought the first Chinese peonies with them to England. Other peonies, which had nothing in common with the Chinese cultivars, were known before already in the European antiquity and in the Middle Ages.