Watercolour of a yellow Paeonia suffruticosa, on Chinese paper, by an anonymous artist. Bound in album 'Plantae Japonicae Icones', nineteenth century, page 64. Paeonia suffruticosa is the current botanical name, moutan is a synonym. The English vernacular name is Chinese tree peony. Pionee is a phonetic spelling of peony
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Watercolour on Chinese paper, with ink outlines, gum arabic appears on some of the darker yellow petals