Sunlight
Flowers are held high above foliage on strong, red stems. This is another Saunders peony with very crepe paper-like petals. (Some would say they lack substance!) I love the color of these flowers.
| Cultivar: | Sunlight |
| Year: | 1950 |
| Seedling No: | 16213 |
| Parentage: | 28: lactiflora 1026 X (officinalis X (mlokosewitschii X macrophylla 4710)) |
| Flower: | Color: | light peach toned pink, fading to white |
| Form: | single, 10 petals, cupped when first opening | |
| Blooms: | Week 3 or 4 | |
| Carpels: | 2, green, slightly woolly | |
| Stigmas: | pink | |
| Disc: | white, edged pink, obscure | |
| Stamens: | filaments red at very base, shading to yellow, sometimes has petaloids | |
| Plant: | Habit: | upright rounded bush |
| Foliage color: | medium green, red stems | |
| Foliage form: | fairly narrow leaves, not lobed, somewhat incurved | |
| Height: | 32″ in 2021 | |
| Recommendation: | Highly recommended |
| Availability: | Several specialty nurseries |
