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 Did
you know that Meconopsis grandis, a species of Himalayan blue
poppy, is the national flower of Bhutan?
Blue Poppy - Meconopsis spp.
Meconopsis is a relatively large genus of
flowering plants in the family Papaveraceae. and contains 49 species, and most
of them were identified by Chinese. The genus Meconopsis does not have a
satisfactory common English name,and the one most used is Himalayan blue poppies.
This reflects to a large degree where they come from, and also the color of the
flowers of many of the species and hybrids.
The species have attractive flowers
and have two distinct ranges. A single species, Meconopsis cambrica (Welsh poppy),
is indigenous to England, Wales, Ireland, and the fringes of Western Europe. The
other 40 or so (depending on classification) species are found in the Himalayas.
Within the Himalayan types there is much debate as to what constitutes a
particular species as many readily hybridise with each other and produce viable
seed. It is likely that some individually-named species are in fact a single
species but with an under-appreciated morphological diversity.
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