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Genus: Papaver (poppies) Life
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> Subfamily: Papaveroideae
About 80 species, native to Europe, temperate Asia,
Australia and Africa. Papaver aculeatum is the only indigenous species in
southern Africa and there are also three naturalised species. An
additional eight species are cultivated.
"In Flanders Field the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row..."
from "In Flanders Field" by John McCrae.
Species native to southern Africa
List from
Plants
of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI).
Species naturalised in southern Africa
List from
Plants
of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI).
Papaver argemone |
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Papaver hybridum |
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Papaver rhoeas (Red poppy, Field poppy, Flanders poppy)
Native to Eurasia and North Africa. |
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Other species cultivated in southern Africa
List from
Glen (2002).
Papaver alpinum |
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Papaver atlanticum
Native to Morocco. |
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Papaver burseri
Native to central and eastern Europe. |
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Papaver croceum (Iceland poppy)
Native to Siberia and Mongolia. |
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Papaver orientale (Oriental poppy)
Native from Turkey to Iran. |
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Papaver radicatum
Native to the Arctic. |
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Papaver somniferum (Opium poppy) |
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Papaver syriacum
Indigenous from Israel to Turkey. |
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