Difference Between Wild Poppy and Poppy

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1. Differences in plant types

2. Differences in leaves

3. The difference between flowers

4. Differences in fruits

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Differences in plant type: wild poppy is 20 to 50 cm tall; opium poppy is 30 to 80 cm tall. Differences in leaves: Wild poppy leaves are oval in outline, while poppy leaves are pinnately deeply lobed or strip-lanceolate. Flower differences: wild poppy flowers are orange; poppy flowers are purple-red. Fruit differences: Wild poppy bears capsules, which are brown. The capsules of poppy are brown.

1. Differences in plant types

1. Differences in plant types

Wild poppy plants are 20 to 50 centimeters tall, contain latex, and are covered in coarse hair.

Poppies are 30 to 80 meters tall cm, branched, with spreading strigose hairs.

2. Differences in leaves

The leaves of wild poppy are basal and have long stalks. The leaves are oval, long oval or narrow oval, with a blunt apex and slightly hard hairs on both sides.

The leaves of the poppy are alternate. It is feather-shaped and deeply lobed, and the lobes are lanceolate or strip-lanceolate, with rough hairs on both sides.

3. Flower differences

Wild poppy flowers stand alone on the top, with four petals, orange in color, obovate to broadly obovate, with microwave-like notches.

The poppy has four petals , purple-red, often with dark purple spots at the base, wide obovate or nearly round.

4. Fruit Differences

Wild poppy has capsules that are narrowly obovate, hard-haired, brown, and have a cracked top hole.

The capsule of the poppy is spherical Or oval, 4 to 7 cm long and 4 to 5 cm in diameter, hairless, brown when mature.

2. Differences in leaves

3. The difference between flowers

4. Differences in fruits

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