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Papaver aculeatum

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Eudicotyledons > Order: Ranunculales > Family: Papaveraceae > Subfamily: Papaveroideae > Genus: Papaver

Papaver aculeatum

The only indigenous South African poppy, Papaver aculeatum, flowering in summer near Rhodes in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]