Friday, February 18, 2011

poppy

defination
A poppy is single of a cluster of a flowering plants in the poppy family, a lot of  which are adult in grounds for their bright flowers.
Poppy flowers have 4 to 6 petals. Petals may be about any tint and some have markings. Before blossoming, the petals are creased in the bud, and as flowering close the petals normally lie down flat earlier than waning away. A whorl of stamens is in the midpoint of the flower.
The pollen of the oriental poppy, Papaver orientale, is murky blue. The pollen of the ground poppy or bump poppy (Papaver rhoeas) is dark blue to grey. Bees use poppies as a pollen source.

Symbolism

Poppies have extended been worn as a mark of together slumber and loss sleep since of the opium extracted starting them, and loss since of the ordinary blood-red dye of the red poppy in exacting. In Greek and Roman myths, poppies were old as aid to the deceased[1] Poppies old as emblem on tombstones be a sign of undying slumber. This imagery was evoke in the children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, in which a paranormal poppy meadow in danger to create the protagonists to slumber eternally.[1]
A moment analysis of poppies in usual legends is that the brilliant scarlet colour signify a agree of restoration past demise.[2]
The poppy of time of war memory is Papaver rhoeas, the red-flowered callus poppy. This poppy is a ordinary weed in Europe and is set up in a lot of location, as well as .Flanders, the scenery of the well-known poem "In Flanders Fields," by the Canadian doctor and fighter John McCrae. In the United States,[3][4] Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand artificial poppies (plastic in Canada, paper in the US[citation needed], UK, Australia and New Zealand) are tatty to remember those who die in war. This shape of honor is related with Veterans' Day in the United States and with Remembrance Day in Canada, together of which go down on November 11. In Canada, poppies are frequently shabby on or after the start of November pending the 11th. In New Zealand and Australia, the military are commemorate on ANZAC day, April 25.[5]

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