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Cluster of bright yellow-orange California poppy flowers (Eschscholzia californica) blooming among green foliage.

California poppy

Two Afghan workers harvest resin from scored green poppy pods in an opium poppy field, with mountains visible in the background.

Mexican tulip poppy

Mojave prickly poppy

Purple opium poppy flower (Papaver somniferum) with a yellow center and dark markings, surrounded by green, lobed foliage.

Welsh poppy (Meconopsis cambrica).

See poppies projected onto Big Ben in commemoration of Remembrance Sunday

See a Matilija poppy blooming, a native to California (US) and Mexico

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