Peony flower blooms are categorized into six types: Single, Japanese, Anemone, Semi-Double, Bombe, and Full Double. Many peonies have pink or white flowers, but there are also purple, red, orange, and even yellow peony varieties.

How do I know what type of peony I have?

Bloom type is also used to identify a specific peony. Single peonies have a few broad petals in a single whorl around very large and visible stamens in the center of the flower. Japanese-type blooms are similar to singles, except the filaments of the stamen in the middle of the bloom are extremely large and prominent.

Do you tell the peony variety?

A Japanese-style favorite, this 1946 Auten award-winner has anemone-shaped flowers with a flouncy layer of large, 7”, pale orchid-pink guard petals filled with an explosion of rose, shell-pink and ivory petaloid segments with a bit of a yellow center glow.