'SNOWY PAGODA' 白雪塔 Tree Peony (Paeonia x suffruticosa '白雪塔 bai xue ta/snowy pagoda')

Bai Xue Ta; Snowy Pagoda/Snow Tower;. 'Bai Xue Ta' or simply 'Xue Ta' is also known as 'Snowy Pagoda' or 'Snow Tower'. This highly sought-after variety is a white-flowering tree peony growing to 8-feet tall and 7-feet wide at maturity (15 years). In the city of Heze, (formerly named Caozhou), Shandong Provence, People's Republic of China this cultivar blossoms late-spring to early-summer. 'Bai Xue Ta' is an upright, bushy, deciduous shrub with deeply-lobed, dark-green leaves divided into elliptic or ovate leaflets and large, lightly-fragrant, fully-double, pink-flushed white flowers in late-spring and early-summer. The Shandong region of China has been cultivating 'Mudan' (peonies) for over three thousand years! Champlain Peony Company is pleased to present this lovely 'King of Flowers' from China's ancient peony capital in very limited edition.  USDA Zones 4-8 would be very successful zones for this peony. It can tolerate somewhat warmer areas than most other peonies. Where