Multiple species of wild tree peonies gave rise to the ‘king of flowers’, Paeonia suffruticosa Andrews

The origin of cultivated tree peonies, known as the ‘king of flowers' in China for more than 1000 years, has attracted considerable interest, but remained unsolved. Here, we conducted phylogenetic analyses of explicitly sampled traditional cultivars of tree peonies and all wild species from the...

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Main Authors: Zhou, Shi-Liang, Zou, Xin-Hui, Zhou, Zhi-Qin, Liu, Jing, Xu, Chao, Yu, Jing, Wang, Qiang, Zhang, Da-Ming, Wang, Xiao-Quan, Ge, Song, Sang, Tao, Pan, Kai-Yu, Hong, De-Yuan
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4240985/