Blue Poppies #1
by Russell Collins
Title
Blue Poppies #1
Artist
Russell Collins
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Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
Blue poppies on a pale background with a light spot in the middle. Meconopsis is a flowering plants in the family Papaveraceae. The species have attractive flowers and have two distinct ranges. A single species, Meconopsis cambrica (Welsh poppy), is found in England, Wales, Ireland, and the fringes of Western Europe. The other 40 or so are found in the Himalayas.
Meconopsis grandis, known as the blue poppy, is the national flower of Bhutan. Blue poppies do not produce opium. They were introduced into the UK in 1922 by the British Himalayan Expedition led by mountaineer George Leigh Mallory.
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March 24th, 2016
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