Angel's Choir Poppy #3
by J McCombie
Title
Angel's Choir Poppy #3
Artist
J McCombie
Medium
Photograph - Untouched
Description
This piece has been featured in the FAA Groups,
Beautiful Poppies", "Global Flowers Photography", and "Flora".
This double Angels Choir poppy is a lovely soft white with a hint of green at the base of the petals, whose veins are accented with a soft blueish pink to almost red. The ruffled, wavy and wrinkled petals give the flower an overall soft appearance. It's centre seed pod is a green with fuzzy kiwi green highlights surrounded by bold golden yellow anthers atop soft pale green filaments. "Poppy Angels Choir" are glorious poppies of exquisite beauty. This wonderful mixture of double flowered poppies, with silky textured blooms that dance on graceful nodding stems, in soft colours from whites to apricot-pinks, lilac-blues, creams and oranges also bi-colours and some interesting picotee types, is the result of almost ten years work. Now the magic of breeders art has transformed the poppy to give you magical garden flowers that leave you spellbound and breathless with their irresistible charm. They are easy to grow in almost any site, looking magnificent in the border, fantastic in large containers and will come up year after year in the garden, if seedlings are left to grow. When entered in the Fleuroselect trials these poppies erned the Fleuroselect Quality Mark. Flowers summer. Height: 60-75cm (24-30in).
Papaver rhoeas (common names include corn poppy, corn rose, field poppy, Flanders poppy, red poppy, red weed, coquelicot, and, due to its odour, which is said to cause them, as headache and headwark) is a species of flowering plant in the poppy family, Papaveraceae. This poppy, a native of Europe, is notable as an agricultural weed (hence the "corn" and "field") and as a symbol of fallen soldiers.
P. rhoeas sometimes is so abundant in agricultural fields that it may be mistaken for a crop. The only species of Papaveraceae grown as a field crop on a large scale is Papaver somniferum, the opium poppy.
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April 24th, 2016
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ArtissiMo Photography
wow- I have never seen this variety of Poppy. Nicely captured. f/l
J McCombie replied:
So glad you found something new you like, ArtissiMo! I like to have flowers that are a little less common. ...J.