Poppy in the Wind
by Jennie Breeze
Title
Poppy in the Wind
Artist
Jennie Breeze
Medium
Photograph - Original Img_1920
Description
Photograph taken at Butterfly Park in Huntington Beach, Ca. The garden is maintained by Leslie Gilson. The small, fragile, brilliantly poppy is probably one of the world's most popular wildflower. A poppy is a flowering plant in the subfamily Papaveroideae of the family Papaveraceae. Poppies are herbaceous plants, often grown for their colourful flowers. One species of poppy, Papaver somniferum, produces edible seeds, and is also the source of the crude drug opium which contains powerful medicinal alkaloids such as morphine and has been used since ancient times as an analgesic and narcotic medicinal and recreational drugs. Following the trench warfare which took place in the poppy fields of Flanders, during the 1st World War, poppies have become a symbol of remembrance of soldiers who have died during wartime. Poppies can be over 4 feet tall with flowers up to six inches across. The flowers have 4 to 6 petals, many stamens forming a conspicuous whorl in the centre of the flower and an ovary consisting of from 2 to many fused carpels. The petals are showy, may be of almost any color and some have markings. The petals are crumpled in the bud and as blooming finishes, the petals often lie flat before falling away.
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April 7th, 2015
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Alex Lapidus
Congratulations, your image has been featured in the Experimental Photography group -- thanks for sharing it with us! Please feel free to add it to the 2022 Feature Archive in the Discussion section (using the "embed" link on your image page).
Jennie Breeze replied:
Thanks Alex! Great to be featured in your EXPERIMENTAL PHOTOGRAPHY GROUP art group.😁
Jennie Breeze
Thanks Bruce! Appreciate the feature in your BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS art group.
Jennie Breeze replied:
Thanks for the feature in your 1 A DAY WAITING ROOM art group Luther Fine Art!