Varieties of Poppy Flowers with Pictures

Tap to Read ➤ Delicate and colorful, you will have a hard time choosing from the wide variety of poppy flowers for your garden. Batul Nafisa Baxamusa

Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. There are hundreds of varieties of poppy flowers found around the world. Belonging to the Papaveroideae family, Poppy flowers are a beauty hard to miss.

These aggressive plants can be annual, biennial, or perineal in nature. The tissue-paper like petals of this pretty flower makes it easily recognizable.

Let's briefly discuss a few of beautiful varieties of poppy with pictures in this story. Poppy flowers are a favorite among gardeners who love a lively and colorful landscape.

They have large bright-colored flowers that look like crepe paper. In their brief perennial they live a glorious and spectacular life. Papaver orientale or Oriental poppy flowers are native to Turkey, Northern Iran, and the Caucasus.

It is also known as Flanders Poppy, due to its mention in the famous war poem, 'In Flanders Fields'. Papaver Rhoeas or Corn Poppy often comes in a vivid red color petals.

Due to its narcotic properties, it is illegal in many countries to grow opium producing poppy flowers domestically. Papaver Somniferum or Opium poppy is famous for both opium and poppy seeds.

This plant is often grown as an ornamental plant due to its large, showy, white flowers. Matilija Poppy is one of the 2 species of genus Romneyas. They are named after Irish astronomer John Thomas Romney Robinson.

The cultivars of Iceland poppies are available in colors like pink, white, salmon, rose, etc. Papaver Nudicaule or Iceland poppy, also called as Arctic Poppy are not easy to grow as other poppies.

Their seeds are very hard to geminate. However, their striking blue color tempts one to try and grow the plant in their garden. Meconopsis Betonicifolia or Himalayan Blue are abundantly found near Hemkund Sahib, Uttarakhand between July to August end.

Delicately swaying in the wind, poppy flowers remain a stoic symbol of peace, death i.e. eternal sleep. These were some of the most beautiful varieties of poppy flowers. Crepe-paper like petals, striking color gives them a dreamy appeal. Your browser doesn't support HTML5 video.