A poppy is any of a number of colorful flowers, typically with one per stem, belonging to the poppy family.
A poppy is any of a number of colorful flowers, typically with one per stem, belonging to the poppy family. They include a number of attractive wildflower species with colorful flowers found growing singularly or in large groups; many species are also grown in gardens. Those that are grown in gardens include large plants used in a mixed herbaceous border and small plants that are grown in rock or alpine gardens. The pollen of the oriental poppy, Papaver orientale, is dark blue. The pollen of the field poppy or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) is dark blue to grey. Bees will use poppies as a pollen source. Poppies may be found in the genera: Meconopsis – Himalayan poppy, Welsh poppy and relatives. Papaver – Iceland poppy, Oriental poppy, Opium poppy, corn poppy and about 120 other species. Romneya – Matilija poppy and relatives. Eschscholzia – California poppy and relatives. Stylophorum – Celandine-poppy, mock poppy, yellow-poppy, wood-poppy. Argemone – Prickly-poppy Canbya – Pygmy-poppy Stylomecon – Wind-poppy Arctomecon – Desert bearpaw-poppy Hunnemannia – Tulip poppy Dendromecon – Tree poppy All species of poppies are attractive and most are cultivated as ornamental garden plants. A few species have other uses, principally as sources of drugs and foods. One species is so widely used, for both drugs and food, that its world production is monitored by international agencies. That species is the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. It is grown for opium and opiates obtained from it, poppy seed for use in cooking and baking, poppyseed oil for both culinary and other uses, and as an ornamental garden have long been used as a symbol of both sleep and death: sleep because of the opium extracted from them, and death because of their (commonly) blood-red color. In Greco-Roman myths, poppies were used as offerings to the dead.[1] Poppies are used as emblems on tombstones to symbolize eternal sleep. The poppy of wartime remembrance is Papaver rhoeas.
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