Is this a peony?

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    image.jpeg good morning! I found this flowering in my parents garden, near where I know my dad planted a peony many years ago. There are seedlings and small plants growing in the gravel around - I need to know if I am going digging with a trowel later?!
     
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    I know, @Silver surfer, you need a close-up of the flower and the leaf!

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    The flower

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    Leaf, with my mother? - what, auto-correct? - my hand, or mitt, for scale

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    A seedling, with a hose in the background for scale (primrose seedlings around)

    image.jpeg A young plant, with my dainty size 8.5 hoof for scale (marjoram to the left)
     
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    Looks like a Peony to me, which one I've no idea :)
     
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      I'm wondering if its a Tree Peony?
       
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        Very definitely one of the tree Peonies. Leaf shape and flower style point to P. lutea var. delavayi, but the colour is a bit pinkjer than that usually is, so it may be one of the named versions of it.
         
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          Time to go rummaging in the garage, to see if dad put the label in a box there....
           
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