Papaver orientale ‘Royal Wedding’

A beautiful poppy to photograph with its immense, crinkled, silky white petals and mysterious, coal-black centres,

The Oriental poppies inhabiting our gardens today have been around for less than a hundred years.   Their hybrid parents P. bracteatum, P. pseudo-orientale and P. orientate are all native to northeast Turkey, the southern Caucasus, and northwest Iran.

 

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