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Glaucium
squamigerum - what might be described as
an 'interesting', rather than a dramatic
plant.
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is found in Central Asia, from the Tien
Shan to the Pamir mountains, and the
seed which we obtained fron Vojtech
Holubec came
from
Tajikistan,
(the
Yazgulem
Range in the
Pamir,
at 2200 m, growing in a gneiss
scree). In his book on Poppies, Grey
Wilson stated that it was then (1993)
apparently not in cultivation outside
the CIS. |
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all the horned poppies, the fruit
capsules are extremely long, and its
name presumably comes from the
remarkable 'scales' on these - in
close-up they look more like crystals. |
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sowed seed at the end of January and
when it had germinated it was pricked
out into our part-built crevice garden.
After a slow start, it has been
flowering continuously from May, and
although Grey Wilson gives the flowering
time as between May and August, this
year it is still producing blooms as we
approach the time to set the clocks
back. |
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more than one or two flowers at a time,
and they seem to attract a pollinating
fly as soon as they open, and by the end
of the day the petals are falling off
and the capsule beginning to elongate. |
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