Wildflowers of Texas # 2 - The Red Corn Poppy

by Allen Beatty

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Wildflowers of Texas # 2 - The Red Corn Poppy

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Allen Beatty

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The small, fragile, brilliantly red poppy is probably the world's most popular wildflower.
The Red Poppy is so popular and widespread, in fact, that there is some confusion about it. No, even though the seed looks about the same, it is not the species used for making poppy seed rolls in baking. And it is also not the famous species used in the production of opium and heroin. The Opium Poppy, Papaver somniferum, a larger annual species, is the one that produces the seeds for baking and also the narcotic sap for illegal drugs.
The Red Poppy is also not the one that produces the big flashy flowers every spring in perennial gardens. That's the Oriental Poppy, P. orientale, and its much larger blooms are basically orange, but have been hybridized into many other colors, including red. And it's not the species known as Iceland Poppy, P. nudicaule, another one that's very popular in gardens in shades of orange, white and pink.
Image Taken at the Wildseed Farm in Fredericksburg, Texas.

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May 19th, 2019

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