Paeonia mascula
Paeonia mascula
Ssp mascula: Ayıgülü; Ssp bodurii: Beyaztombak
Leaves simply biternate, or with some leaflets further divided, thus with 9-16 narrowly to broadly elliptic segments, glabrous to pilose beneath. Flowers 8-14 cm across, petals red. Follicles 3-5, 2-4 cm, white-tomentose, with a truncate apex and sessile stigma. - A complex species, of which 2 subspecies occur in Turkey:
1. Leaves pilose beneath with 12-16 segments ……………..subsp. arietina
1. Leaves glabrous or sparsely pilose beneath with 9-10 segments subsp. mascula
subsp. bodurii
Stem glabrous, purplish, striate, 50-80 cm. Lower leaves biternate with 7-11 leaflets; leaflets obovate, broadly elliptic or nearly orbicular, shortly acuminate, 9-19 x 5-11 cm, terminal leaflets attenuate into a shortly decurrent petiole. Leaves glabrous, greyish-green above, glaucous beneath. Upper cauline leaves ternate, leaflets 6-13 x 6-9 cm, shortly acuminate. Rowers 11-12 cm across. Petals 5-7, obovate, white, purplish at base. Filaments dark purplish, 10-13 mm; anthers pink or yellow. Carpels 3-4, very densely white tomentose. Fertile seeds dark purplish.
Endemic.
