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  • Itis similar to, if not identical with, the wild P. bracteatum that hails from sun-baked Turkish slopes.

    Gardens: Oriental poppies 2010

  • Uncultivated areas in the Sichuan Basin include deforested slopes that now support a scrub of Rhododendron, Vaccinium bracteatum and Myrica nana.

    Sichuan Basin evergreen broadleaf forests 2008

  • In _Papaver bracteatum_ a considerable number of the stamens sometimes become developed into pistils, especially those which are nearest to the centre of the flower, and in these flowers the filaments are said to become the ovaries, while the anthers are curled so as to resemble stigmas.

    Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

  • It is so common to observe on the same plant, flowers indifferently tetramerous, pentamerous, &c., that I need not give examples; but as numerical variations are comparatively rare when the parts are few, I may mention that, according to De Candolle, the flowers of Papaver bracteatum offer either two sepals with four petals (which is the common type with poppies), or three sepals with six petals.

    VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection 1909

  • Their flowers become monopetalous, and the whole strain is designated by the name of _Papaver_ [662] _bracteatum monopetalum_.

    Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

  • The direct proof of this conclusion is afforded by a curious observation, made by Vilmorin upon the bright and large-flowered garden-poppy, _Papaver bracteatum_.

    Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

  • Poppy (_P. orientale_) and the grand scarlet Siberian Poppy (_P. bracteatum_), perhaps the most gorgeous of hardy plants: while among the rarer species of the tribe we must reckon the Meconopses of the

    The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

  • Candolle, Alp. de, on variation in oaks, 77 on variability of Papaver bracteatum, 79

    Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

  • -- Gamopetalous flower of _Papaver bracteatum_.] = Cohesion of the petals.

    Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

  • Phys. de Genève_, tom.ii. part ii.p. 217) states that Papaver bracteatum and P. orientale present indifferently two sepals and four petals, or three sepals and six petals, which is sufficiently rare with other species of the genus. "

    Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

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