Poppy
Papaver sp.
Poppy · Goodnestone · 1 June 2024
Tissue-paper petals around a ridged green seed capsule and a ring of dark stamens - a garden poppy, probably one of the Shirley strains bred up from the wild corn poppy. Shirley poppies began in a Surrey vicarage garden in 1880, when the Reverend William Wilks noticed one corn poppy with a white edge to its petals and spent years selecting from it; every one since is descended from that single flower.
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