FOTD – October 22 – More Of My Poppies

My Poppies are beginning to fade as their season nears it’s end for yet another year. Happily however, they are still managing to produce even more amazing variations from the ‘plain’ red remembrance poppy theme.

(Click on image to open in a new window and click again to expand) 🙂This two-tone beauty also has a very unusual black ‘cross’, starting from a thin and pale base near the seed tube a deep black patch appears toward the middle of each petal.  🙂

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A light dew has glazed the petals of this pink poppy with microfine drops and has a golden halo of anthers surrounding it’s seed pod. 🙂

Four very different flowers growing side by side, having self-sown, that have all originated from a single base type. The bee will probably make his way around all of them, eventually. 🙂

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A pale peach poppy gem! :-).

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The raindrops add dramatic detail to this most unusual poppy mutation – one i have never seen previously. It has a scarlet and white base of 4 petals which the majority of my poppy stock possess, but on top of these are over a dozen ‘proto-petals’ in a pale pink and white shade. There does not appear to be any cross and stamen and anthers are also much smaller and shorter than most of the other poppies! 🙂

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link to:

Cee’s Flower of the Day – October 22, 2019 – A Spider In The Flowers

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