Paeonia officinalis L. - syn.Paeonia feminea Mill. - Paeoniaceae \\
common paeony, European paeony, **(Echte) Pfingstrose**, Garten-Pfingstrose, Bauern-Pfingstrose, Gichtrose

Perennial herb, up to 70cm tall, nativer to southern Europe, cultivated as ornamental.

In Middle Ages, Peony (as so-called "gout Rose", dried petals of filled red-blooded garden forms) had a wide range of therapeutic indications. Efficancy in all those indications has not been demonstrated, so peony as a medicinal plant in traditional medicine today is irrelevant. \\
[[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeine_Pfingstrose]] 

|{{:citronellol.jpg| citronellol }} \\ citronellol | {{e23dihydrofarnesol.jpg| (E)-2,3-dihydrofarnesol}} \\ (E)-2,3-dihydrofarnesol|

"Paeonia officinalis flowers have a weak scent, which contains a high quantity of terpenes. From these substances, monoterpenes are in majority, such: β-citronellol (22.24%), and eucalyptol (6.22%) and sesquiterpenes: β-caryophyllene (13.36%), dihydro-trans-farnesole (11.31%) and trans-farnesole (7.41% from the total content of the determined components). There were also quantified high quantities of hydrocarbons (25.70%)." \\
[Contribution to knowledge the volatile oil from Paeonia officinalis L. flowers., Dulgheru, C., Burzo, I., Lucrări Ştiinţifice-Universitatea de Ştiinţe Agronomice şi Medicină Veterinară Bucureşti. Seria B, Horticultură, Vol.(54), 2010, 639-641]

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Paeonia officinalis L. var. rubra, Morris, R., Flora conspicua, t.11 (1826) [W.Clark] \\
[[http://www.plantillustrations.org/species.php?id_species=737898]]


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Praeonia officinalis\\ © Rolf Marschner (2008),  
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