Papaver orientale aka P. bracteaturn Oriental Poppy 3-7 Mediterranean Region and Asia Minor   2-4 feet 4-6 inches wide, petals 4 or 6, borne on long peduncles with coarse appressed white hairs, flower colors are orange-red, white, deep red or pink, often with a mound of black pollen-bearing stamens in the center of the flower. Late May-June Hispid, leaves to 12 inches long and regularly pinnatifid, the segments oblong-lanceolate and sharply lobed or toothed. Broken stem or leaves exude a white milky sap.     'Carousel' - White flowers with orange margins. 'China Boy' - Orange flowers with white bases. 'Glowing Embers' - Crimson-red flowers. 'Mrs. Perry' - Salmon pink flowers. 'Warlord' - Very deep red color on large blooms. 'Watermelon' - Watermelon pink flowers.

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