Anemone coronaria
species of plant
Anemone coronaria, the poppy anemone, or garden anemone, is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native to the Mediterranean region.
Description
Anemone coronaria is a herbaceous perennial tuberous plant growing to 20–40 cm (7.9–15.7 in) tall, rarely to 60 cm (24 in), spreading to 15–23 cm (5.9–9.1 in), with a basal rosette of a few leaves, the leaves with three leaflets, each leaflet deeply lobed. The flowers which bloom from April to June are borne singly on a tall stem with a whorl of small leaves just below the flower; the flower is 3–8 cm in diameter, with 5–8 red (but may be white or blue) showy petal-like tepals and a black centre. The pollen is dry, has an unsculpted exine, is less than 40µm in diameter, and is usually deposited within 1.5 m of its source. This central mound consists of tightly packed pistils in the centre, with a crown-like ring of stamens surrounding this, giving the species its specific epithet coronaria. The flowers produce 200–300 seeds. The plants form hard black tubers as storage organs.
Aside from its flowers resembling poppies, the red single wild form flowers resemble the flowers of the red single wild form of Ranunculus asiaticus. Although widely called the 'poppy anemone' and sometimes rendered simply 'poppy' in English translations of Arabic sources, A. coronaria is an anemone (Ranunculaceae), not a poppy (Papaveraceae); the corn poppy it resembles is Papaver rhoeas, called khashkhash in Arabic.
Etymology
Anemone coronaria means crown anemone, referring to the central crown of the flower.
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