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A Pink Poppy
« on: February 17, 2013, 10:22:23 PM »
Are these two poppies the same species?
I can find no reference for the pink one.
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Re: A Pink Poppy
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2013, 09:14:49 AM »
Hi John,
Are you sure it isn't simply Papaver rhoeas (Shirley series)?
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Re: A Pink Poppy
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2013, 09:22:27 AM »
It was found at the edge of an olive grove on a hill outside Malaga and there was a farmhouse close by.
There was no evidence of a 'flower garden' and all the other poppies were distinctly of the 'wild' variety.
It was possibly the prettiest poppy I have ever seen. shame there was no ripe seed. :'(
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Re: A Pink Poppy
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2013, 11:33:27 AM »
It was found at the edge of an olive grove on a hill outside Malaga and there was a farmhouse close by.
There was no evidence of a 'flower garden' and all the other poppies were distinctly of the 'wild' variety.
It was possibly the prettiest poppy I have ever seen. shame there was no ripe seed. :'(
J.

Morning. It looks to me like an odd (pink) coloured Papaver rupifragum. Flora Iberica has it recorded from Cadiz province next door to Malaga so its not out of the realm of possibility it is there. If you can make out hairy margins and on the veins on your original image then it is probably just a colour mutation.

Dont bother with google - the images of P. rupifragum are mostly the sometimes synonimised orange flowered P. atlanticum 

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Re: A Pink Poppy
« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2013, 11:44:14 AM »
I'd have guessed a P. nudicaule, though what that would be doing naturalised near Malaga I cannot imagine!
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Re: A Pink Poppy
« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2013, 02:32:47 PM »
Try another view.
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Re: A Pink Poppy
« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2013, 02:56:38 PM »
Remember it and the spot well Johnnie.
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