Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Papaver Sultan.

 Annual, biennial and perennial herbs, usually with a developed stem, less often stemless. Plants secrete milky juice, white, yellow or orange.

 Leaves are usually once or twice or thrice pinnately dissected, naked or more often hairy-bristly.


 Flowers are large, single, usually red (less often white or yellow), on long peduncles, or (in stemless species) peduncles, without bracts, in some species - in a paniculate inflorescence. Stamens are usually numerous, with thin or club-shaped filaments; anthers from rounded to linear, occasionally with a capitate appendage on a connective. Ovary of 3-22 carpels, most often 4-10. Flowers are pollinated by insects, in some species self-pollination is possible.

 The fruit is a capsule, short-cylindrical, club-shaped, oblong, obovate or spherical, sessile or suddenly narrowed into a short stalk, unilocular; the placentas protrude inward in the form of thin plates; covered from above by a pyramidal, convex or flat disk, the antiplacental rays of which are usually connected by a membranous or leathery membrane into a monolithic disk. The capsule opens through pores, directly under the disk. The seeds are small, cellular-mesh, without an appendage. Ripe seeds are thrown out over a long distance as a result of the capsule bursting sharply. They can also spill out of the capsule openings in the wind, like salt from a salt shaker.






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