Paeonia mairei Leveille (1915) is a Chinese plant closely related to P. obovata. Its synonyms are P. bifurcata and P. oxypetala. It is said to have more pointed leaves than P. obovata. My reference for this is Halda, The Genus Paeonia, which, however, is "splittist" in tendency. Jane McGary Portland, Oregon, USA Jane, Your comment on "splittist tendency" reminded me of my Wikipedia search for 'Hippeastrum'. I was trying to put together a presentation on the genus and was disconcerted to see that Wikipedia would not commit to a phylum or class but was willing to insert a subfamily, tribe, and subtribe between family and genus. Admittedly it's been 45 years since I've had a botany or taxonomy course and there has been a lot of parallel developments and philosophical changes affecting taxonomy, but I'd love to know 'the rest of the story' on what seems to be a basic dis-functionality regarding flowering plant taxonomy. Thanks, Tim