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Papaver orientale (Oriental poppy)

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 orientale (Oriental poppy) Papaver orientale (Oriental poppy)

Papaver orientale, Vienna Botanical Gardens, Austria. [photos H.G. Robertson, Iziko ©]

 

Native from Turkey to Iran. Cultivated in southern Africa.

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