Janet Baraclough wrote:
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Mike Lyle wrote:
Ann Heanes wrote:
GlacierHi
Can anyone tell me why a farmer would be growing a field of
white
poppies? It was a lovely sight but what would the harvest be?
Annie
Well, at Reading U you're in the best possible place in the
country
to get the answer! It sounds like an opium poppy:
Aren't the flowers of opium poppy a dirty-pink colour? Or am I
dazed and confused ? :~}
That's strong stuff you've got, Janet! Replying on nothing but beer,
I'll say opium poppy flowers vary a lot, even in the species: you do
get white ones. The uniform colour of those the OP saw is what
suggested a cultivar to me.
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Mike.
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