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Burning Bright

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Cultivar
Burning Bright
Originator
Saunders / Goldsmith / Rogers, A.
Group
Herbaceous Hybrid
Date
1986
Country
USA, NY

Single, fluorescent pink-red, reliable, 34″, early midseason. Parentage: obtained by Roy Leighton, Seattle, Washington from Prof. Saunders, in a non-blooming block of seedlings in 1940. Later, all peonies and seedlings were sold to Goldsmith in 1952. Peggy Goldsmith gave this outstanding lobata seedling #179. It first bloomed in 1953. Rogers of Caprice Farm Nursery bought it from Goldsmith in 1978. Seedling # 179.

Reference: 1986-261:09