A poppy field (and some rape flowers) at Melbury Down, near Shaftesbury, Dorset UK.

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The red poppy,Papaver rhoeas, is a variable, erect annual, forming a long-lived soil seed bank that can germinate when the soil is disturbed. This field recently had it's first growth of poppies in some 14 years.

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Location: Melbury Down, north Dorset UK
Photo credit: © ALAN MORGAN PHOTOGRAPHY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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