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Plant Family / Families: Papaveraceae
Scientific Name and Author: Meconopsis punicea Maxim.
Institution: Branklyn Garden
Name Location: Perth, Scotland, UK
Another thank you to Krystyna Szulecka for contributing one of her photographs to BPotD (posted in this thread via the BPotD submissions forum). See more of Krystyna's images by searching for “Krystyna” on the FLPA web site.
Today's image was photographed in the Branklyn Garden of Perth, Scotland, well-known for its collection of Meconopsis species. Krystyna provides details about the species via Steve McNamara in the BPotD submission posting -- a good thing, too, as resources about the plant online are few. A recent posting (May 20) to the May garden highlights of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh also provides a description of the plant.
GRIN's account of Meconopsis punicea provides both a common name (red poppywort) and a distribution: western central China and northeastern Tibet.
More photographs of Meconopsis punicea, including images of the plants in habitat, are available via eFloras.org. Asianflora.com also has a few images.
Posted by Daniel Mosquin at May 30, 2008 9:28 AM
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Posted by: Alex Jablanczy at May 30, 2008 1:08 PM
If you look at the other websites be forewarned they call Tibet Xizang. I wonder why?
Posted by: Alexander Jablanczy at May 30, 2008 11:05 PM
"If you look at the other websites be forewarned they call Tibet Xizang. I wonder why?"
Politics. Xizang is the name used by the Chinese Government. Best not discussed further here - it's a very emotive issue.
Posted by: Michael F at May 31, 2008 3:48 AM
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Is this a coincidence or the featuring of this Tibetan poppy from Sechuan is in reference to the heating up of both the political situation and of the Earths crust?