SUNNY BOY (Chris Laning) - October, 1985. Seedling #99 - also known as "Laning's Best Yellow." Parentage, Quad F3 x Moonrise. First bloomed 1975. Full double of medium yellow color with purple red flares at the petal base. Foliage deep green, 30" height, standing fairly erect. Sets seeds and reports are that the pollen is highly effective on difficult crosses.

parent: Moonrise

Don Hollingsworth on yahoo!peony

Chris laning's Sunny Boy is a good yellow for its ancesatry, two-stage double (flower-in-flower), stamens not completely changed to petals (progressive, rather than over-all transformation) and will make normal carpels in its less advanced flowers, as are typically produced on lesser stems or occasional sidebuds. It is an advanced generation hybrid having restored fertility, readily produces pollen and seeds, presumably tetraploid. In short it is a breeders dream. Unfortunately, its numbers have not been bulked up and it is difficult to obtain a piece.

SUNNY BOY No staking. 95cm. Very full rich cream double flowers on a tall plant with strong stems.

picture in 2007 available on Prof. Harald Fawkner's website, www.speedcloud.com , look under East

Carsten Burkhardt's Web Project Paeonia - The Peony Database

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