Flower Paeonia Line Art

Peonies (Paeonia), also called peonies, are the only genus of plants in the peony family (Paeoniaceae). This genus includes 32 species. The best-known varieties are perennials, that is, perennial herbaceous plants whose above-ground shoots die back in winter; in addition, there are also woody species and varieties that grow mostly as semishrubs, more rarely as shrubs. Initial forms of cultivated varieties are almost always horticultural cultivars of the common peony and the milk white peony. Peony species are mostly perennial herbaceous plants, rarely woody semishrubs, or smaller shrubs. The small group of semishrubby Chinese species known as "shrub" or "tree" peonies form shoot axes up to about 2.5 meters long that become woody. All Paeonia species and varieties are deciduous. They form long-lived, fairly woody rhizomes with thickened roots as survival organs. Seed germination is hypogeous.

In everyday language, a flower refers either to a flowering plant that "produces" larger, eye-catching blossoms, or to a "single blossom of a flower with a stem", or is used as a short form for flowering vine. It is often used as an ornament, e.g. as a cut flower in a bouquet, a floral wreath or a floral arrangement. In the visual arts, flowers as a floral motif are a frequently depicted theme. In botany, on the other hand, the term flower is clearly defined and is separated in particular from the term blossom. While a flower (as a single flower or inflorescence) is defined by its function in pollination, a blossom (as a stunted shoot with metamorphosed leaves) is a term clearly defined by morphology.

A flower is the pollination-biological unit of flowering plants. It is its task to attract pollinators or it forms a technical-functional unit. Flower is therefore an ecologically-functionally defined term. Thus, flowers pollinated by animals are classified according to their pollinators, such as the bird flowers or the beetle flowers. A flower is defined as a shoot of limited growth in the service of sexual reproduction. Its structure is clearly divided into perianth, stamens and carpels. Tulip or rose flowers are good examples of this. They do not have to be conspicuously built or coloured; grasses also have flowers.