May Music
I realized when preparing material for this website that I did not have the correct ‘May Music’. Fortunately a good friend has given me a piece of the one that fits the description. However, my incorrectly named plant is very beautiful and photos of it are shown under peony mixups. I would love to have it identified. It is a very worthy plant.
A bloom from my first year plant is shown on the right.
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| Cultivar: May Music |
| Year: 1973 (Saunders/Reath) |
| Seedling No: 16209 |
| Parentage: 28: lactiflora X (officinalis X (mlokosewitschii X macrophylla)) |
| Flower: | Color: | light rose pink with 7 crimson flares |
| Form: | single | |
| Blooms: | very early (Reath) late (Silvia Saunders) | |
| Carpels: | 2-3, pale green, almost naked | |
| Stigmas: | crimson | |
| Disc: | white, conspicuous | |
| Stamens: | red at base, shading white | |
| Plant: | Habit: | upright |
| Foliage color: | deep green (reported); I would say medium green | |
| Foliage form: | narrow, not lobed | |
| Height: | 36″ (reported); 27″ in 2022 but plant is not mature | |
| Recommendation: | Collectors’ plant |
| Availability: | Rare |
