Sarah Bernhardt
by Nick Boren
Title
Sarah Bernhardt
Artist
Nick Boren
Medium
Photograph - Nikon Photography
Description
This beautiful peony flower is called Sarah Bernhardt. It is a very old heirloom variety, and it has a pleasant fragrance. This particualr flower was about 5 inches in diameter.
From Wikipedia:
The species of the section Paeonia have a disjunct distribution, with most of the species occurring in the Mediterranean, while many others occur in eastern Asia. Genetic analysis has shown that all Mediterranean species are either diploid or tetraploid hybrids that resulted from the crossbreeding of species currently limited to eastern Asia. The large distance between the ranges of the parent species and the nothospecies suggest that hybridisation already occurred relatively long ago. It is likely that the parent species occurred in the same region when the hybrids arose, and were later exterminated by successive Pleistocene glaciations, while the nothospecies remained in refugia to the South of Europe. During their retreat P. lactiflora and P. mairei likely became sympatric and so produced the Himalayan nothospecies P. emodi and P. sterniana.[17]
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June 10th, 2022
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