Normal yes. Different types are divided differently, or were divided by two suppliers who divide depending on how their roots look.

Whenever Costco has peonies I don't already have I will buy a box. Sometimes half in the box will be duplicates of plants I am already growing. I pot them all up and grow them till fall. Those I want to add to my garden are then planted and the others I leave in their pot until next spring when I will donate them to a garden club plant sale. Al

calistoga, do they bloom the first year? By the look of the divisions, I am not sure these would actually do much the first year.

Ikea they will not bloom this year and probably not next year either. Peonies are for the long haul and will be blooming fifty years, but not the first couple. If I dig an established peony in the fall, I can get substantial divisions with large root storage tubers that will bloom the next spring, but such divisions are difficult to find for sale. Al