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Paeonia lactiflora ‘Hot Chocolate’
Common garden peony
| Kingdom | Plantae | Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae |
| Subkingdom | Tracheobionta | Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients |
| Division | Magnoliophyta | Flowering plants, also known as angiosperms |
| Class | Magnoliopsida | Dicotyledons—plants with two initial seed leaves |
| Subclass | Dilleniidae | |
| Order | Dilleniales | |
| Family | Paeoniaceae | |
| Genus | Paeonia | Honors Paeon, the physician of the gods in Homer’s Iliad who used the plant to heal the wound that Hercules inflicted on Pluto |
| Species | lactiflora | |
| Cultivar | ‘Hot Chocolate’ | |
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Paeonia lactiflora ‘Hot Chocolate’ description by Thomas H. Kent, last updated 25 May 2020.
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6/17/2012 · Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, Maine
≈ 17 × 12" (44 × 29 cm) 
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