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This is a good guess. There are flowers that are colored by the specific nutrients in the soil. My wife has a plant like this but it is not a peony. The best way to find out for sure is to contact a gardening store. Peonies may change color over time naturalaly but I doubt it.
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It is a puzzle. If it was just one white, it could be a "sport" or spot mutation. I can't believe most of the plant did that, it is ussually just one stem. Sometimes a virus will give different colors (tulips depend on that for the bizare colorations). I don't think it is the soil. I routinely ignore my peonies and they do fine for years with occasional dividing. I guess see what happens next year. Or as Rollie suggest, ask a local gardening expert.
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